But it's just--it gives you a sense of how at least some of the British

这起码会让你知道一些英国人
were thinking and looking at really these little

如何看待这一小撮
upstarts on the margins of empire.

帝国边境的叛乱分子
So random arrogant British quote number one,

随机抽取傲慢英国人叙述一
and this is from a customs official:

引自一位海关官员
"American colonists are a most rude, depraved, degenerate race,

"美国殖民是最粗野卑鄙的堕落种族
and it is a mortification to us that they speak English and can

令我们感到耻辱的是他们也讲英语
trace themselves from that stock."

并能据此追溯他们的英国血统"
Just--Even English is a problem.

竟然连英语都成为问题
That's a statement.

那是一种说法
Okay.

好了
Arrogant quote number two, and this one I picked just

傲慢叙述二我选择这则材料