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 with but very rare opportunities of conversing with learned men."
  也没有机会与有教养的人交流"
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  That almost sounds like someone who feels sorry for himself.
  听起来像是为自己感到遗憾
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  'I am so far from civilization.'
  "我是如此远离文明"
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  Or, you might boast about colonial society,
  或者 你可能以殖民地社会为荣
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  not claiming to be better than the mother country
  不一定说要优于宗主国
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  but instead bragging that the colonies represented Britain in miniature;
  但你会强调殖民地是英国的缩影
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  that colonial legislatures in this sense were kind of like mini-Parliaments.
  殖民地议会就如同微型的国会
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  Or, you might admit that the colonies were different from England
  或者 你承认殖民地与英国本土不同
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  but boast that in the same way that
  但同时 你会自豪地说
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  England once had been pure and virtuous,
  英国那纯粹而质朴的传统
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  you in the colonies were maintaining the sort of pure, virtuous England,
  殖民地都继承了下来
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  and that England itself was becoming corrupt
  当英国本土开始堕落