You might decide instead to go to

你可以转而选择
the southern colonies to get rich quick,

去南方的殖民地
and for example

比如说
it was largely sons of the lesser gentry in England

英国身份较低的士绅子弟中
who went to Jamestown

有一大批在十七世纪初
at the start of the Seventeenth Century in Virginia.

来到弗吉尼亚的詹姆斯敦
And, logically enough, since these are sons of the lesser gentry

尽管他们是出身较差的士绅子弟
and they consider themselves to be above hard labor,

他们还是认为自己比劳苦大众优越
they show up to this rather primitive

在尚处于史前时代的
new colony in Jamestown,

新殖民地詹姆斯敦
they refuse to work to grow their own food,

他们不愿为自己种植粮食
and they starve to death.

结果活活饿死了