来自《耶鲁大学开放课程：美国革命 第3集 第3集》

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  and they weren't afraid to act on that desire, to reach for it.
  而且一点也不惧怕追寻梦想 打拼天下
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  Obviously, these are people who are going to be pretty independent
  很明显 这些人的独立性都很强
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  and they were often people who didn't simply accept the status quo.
  而且不愿意简单地满足于现状
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  Now all of these are really big, broad generalizations,
  我只是很宽泛地概括了一下
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  but as big and broad as they are, you can see in a general sense
  虽然如此 你还是可以看出来
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  that people who are deciding to migrate in this way
  这些殖民者都决心满满
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  -- certainly, many of them would have shared
  大多数在一定程度上
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  some of these characteristics to some degree.
  都有这种共同的品质
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  And, as we're going to see in the next few weeks,
  在接下来几个星期我们会谈到
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  in a general way this spirit ran through all of the colonies,
  各个殖民地的人们都有这样一种精神
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  this sort of sense of really being willing to push for what you wanted.
  这种愿意为梦想而努力的精神
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  In the Old World, naturally enough,
  在旧世界