来自《耶鲁大学开放课程：美国革命 第8集 第8集》
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representing Massachusetts in a sort of--代表马萨诸塞的外交官... -
today you might say--international body,在这种我们今天所谓的...国际组织 -
but he sees the Continental Congress但是他将大陆会议 -
as a sort of grouping of representatives of other provinces看成某种他省或者 -
or other countries or nations,其他国家代表的聚会 -
and he's a delegate from our embassy of Massachusetts.而他是来自我们马萨诸塞大使馆的代表 -
So in a way we put a lot of baggage【某种程度上我们给"议会"加上了很沉重的含义】 -
into the word "Congress"我们在某种程度上给议会这词加上了很深的含义 -
as though,好像 -
'oh, it's a bunch of Americans joined in a congress,'这是一群美国人联合起来参加了议会 -
but it's not a Congress in our modern sense of the word.但是这不是我们现代意义上的议会 -
It really is in their mind a sort of delegation在他们观点里只是