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 behaving differently from the average British subject.
  表现出与一般英国人不同的行为
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  So if you put this different sort of person
  所以 如果你把这些独特的人
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  in a different kind of environment, as in the colonies,
  聚集在一片不同的土地上 比如殖民地
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  you begin to understand
  你就可以理解
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  the slow creation of something
  这种缓慢形成的
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  that ends up being a kind of colonial American mindset or mentality.
  美国殖民地居民所特有的思维了
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  And this brings us to my second category of differences in the colonies,
  这就涉及到我所说的殖民地的第二点不同
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  which is: the conditions of life in british North America.
  也就是英属北美的独特环境
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  You have a different kind of person.
  首先有了这些具有独特品质的人
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  Now you're putting them in a different kind of living situation
  现在又把他们放在一个独特的环境中
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  and there were a number of things
  殖民地的环境
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  that were different about living conditions in the colonies.
  有不少特别的地方