来自《耶鲁大学开放课程：美国革命 第2集 第2集》

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  that they felt that they were right there
  他们感到自己就在那里
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  with the British army fighting against the french.
  与英国军队一起对抗法国人
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  Above all else, as British colonists you would
  更重要的是 作为英属殖民地居民
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  of course consider yourselves to be British subjects through and through,
  你会把自己看成彻头彻尾的英国人
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  equal to all other British subjects,
  就和所有其他英国人
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  even those living off in the east in the metropolis.
  甚至远在东边大城市的英国人一样
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  You were a British subject
  既然是英国人
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  and you deserved the rights of a British subject,
  就该享有英国人的权利
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  but as a colonist living on the
  但你这个殖民地居民
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  peripheries of the British Empire,
  却生活在大英帝国的边缘地区
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  on the edge of what was perceived at the time to be a howling wilderness,
  一片被人们视为蛮荒之域的地方
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  which is one of those great eighteenth-century ways
  这是十八世纪的人们