来自《耶鲁大学开放课程：美国革命 第2集 第2集》

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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
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  by that fellow on Tuesday who said that
  傲慢的英国老兄的话
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  he was mortified that these crude colonists spoke English
  他无法忍受粗鄙的殖民地居民也说英语
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  and could trace themselves to us because they speak our language.
  还与自己同宗同源 他认为这是种羞辱
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  So that's sort of the ultimate nasty stab at the colonists.
  这算是对殖民地居民最恶毒的中伤