来自《耶鲁大学开放课程：美国革命 第3集 第3集》

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  the idea being in the colonies
  在殖民地上
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  that you should only let people vote who were really invested in a community,
  只有那些在社区有所投资的人才有投票权
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  and landholders are pretty literally invested in their communities.
  而地主大多会在社区进行投资
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  So in the colonies where you have a lot--
  所以在殖民地上有许多
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  a much larger number of landholders,
  或者说有更多的地主
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  you have a much wider franchise than in England.
  也就比在英国有更广的选举权
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  So an example of that: In the 1760s in England,
  举个例子 在十八世纪六十年代的英国
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  roughly twenty percent of white men had the vote.
  大约20%的白人有投票权
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  In the colonies,
  而在殖民地
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  roughly sixty to eighty percent
  根据殖民地的具体情况
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  of white men had the vote depending on the colony,
  大约有60%到80%的白人有投票权
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  which is a pretty big difference.
  这点差距很大