who never have an opportunity to see,

他们或许根本没有机会
or if they had the opportunity to observe,

接触到礼仪之邦的三六九等
the different ranks of men in polite nations?"

更别提效仿了"
Notice how the colonies are never polite.

在他们眼中殖民地是未开化的荒蛮之地
There are the polite nations,

他们才是"礼仪之邦"
and then there's these scary, howling wilderness colonists.

而可怜的殖民地居民生活在荒芜之域
Along these same lines, there's actually another

在这些人中还有耶鲁的
professor here at Yale, Kariann Yokota,

另一位教授卡莉安·横田
and some of her work shows--I found this really fascinating--

我惊奇地在她的著作中发现
that the British regularly sent damaged

英国人会把损坏或次等的
or second-rate goods to the colonists

商品运到殖民地
because they figured the colonists wouldn't know the difference.

因为他们觉得殖民地居民看不出区别