来自《耶鲁大学开放课程：美国革命 第2集 第2集》

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  right along the shoreline for really practical reasons.
  殖民地人口大量集中于海岸地区
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  I'm sure you don't have to be very imaginative to think why.
  相信你们很容易就能想到为什么
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  Obviously, for reasons of trade, for reasons of shipping
  显然 这是为了贸易和航运方便
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  and even just for reasons of communication it made sense,
  其实仅通信这一理由也足以解释
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  not to mention the fact that people had
  而且 印第安人对于殖民者
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  a pretty healthy fear of potentially unfriendly Indians
  在扩张过程中掠夺土地的行为感到不满
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  who were not particularly pleased with the idea of
  人们也对这些不友善的原住民
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  losing land to potentially advancing settlers.
  产生了强烈恐惧
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  Now if you were male,
  在当时 如果你是男的
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  you might very well be a small landholder
  很有可能会是一个小地主
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  because about sixty percent of
  因为约有百分之六十的
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  the white male colonists owned land and,
  白人男性殖民地居民拥有自己的土地