来自《耶鲁大学开放课程：美国革命 第2集 第2集》

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  and certainly you felt potentially irrelevant.
  当然 你觉得自己被孤立了
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  You really did feel that you were
  你会切实认为
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  on the edge of a howling wilderness.
  自己是没见过世面的乡巴佬
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  So in essence, like most British colonists in North America,
  总结来说 如果你生活在那个时代
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  if you were there at the time,
  就会像多数生活在北美的英国人一样
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  you would have had an ongoing inferiority complex.
  有一种持续的自卑心结
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  Now there were a number of ways in which
  你可能会用以下几种方式
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  you might deal with your insecurities.
  来应对这种不安
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  One way to deal with that would have been
  一种方式就是
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  to become really apologetic for what would have been labeled as
  你因自己这种被称作"美国式"的
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  American speech patterns or American manners,
  言谈举止而自惭形秽
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  and I've already given you one arrogant British quote
  我周二时引用了一位