"Who cares about founders?"

"建国者们算哪根葱"
But what I am saying is that they're not the only ones who mattered.

但我要说的是并不只有他们才举足轻重
They didn't have their own revolution while everybody else watched.

他们革命的时候其他人并未袖手旁观
We're talking about a popular revolution grounded on the ideas

我们讲的是一场在思想上行为上受到
and actions of people throughout many different levels of society.

社会各级人民所认可的革命
Now somewhat conversely this brings us to John Adams.

相反地这使我们想起了约翰·亚当斯
As I promised at the beginning,

正如我开始时说的
John Adams is coming and here's john Adams.

我会提到他这就提到他了
You'll be hearing from him more than once this semester and

在这学期你们会多次听到他的名字
actually you already heard from him once

事实上你们已经听过一次了
so I can promise that that's true.

所以这就证明那是真的
This isn't because I think that John Adams is the most important

这并不是因为我认为约翰·亚当斯是