来自《耶鲁大学开放课程：美国革命 第3集 第3集》

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  into one big blob of early America,
  都划为"早期美国"
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  and we assume it's a kind of a small blob,
  而且我们假定这是一块比较小的历史
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  but if you think about that,
  但如果你仔细想想
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  Declaration of Independence to World War II,
  从独立宣言到二战
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  Jamestown to the Declaration of Independence,
  以及从詹姆斯敦到独立宣言
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  we are talking about a broad expanse of time.
  这是一段很长的时间跨度
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  So these people, or at least many of them,
  因此这些人 至少他们中的大多数
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  are truly British Americans at this point.
  从这点来看实属英裔美国人
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  Colonists were also not Britons in yet another way--
  从另一角度讲殖民者也不是真正的英国人
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  another distinctive feature of colonial society--
  这是殖民社会的另一个显著特征
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  and that's again something I referred to at the beginning,
  这个我在开始时也提到过
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  and that's the great ethnic and religious diversity.
  也就是民族和宗教的多元化