loyal to the Crown or to be moderate.

忠于王室或保持温和立场
And in a way just sort of using the term "Loyalist"

一种方法是使用"效忠派"一词
and throwing it around doesn't do the complexity of this justice,

正义
because there were any number of reasons

因为有无数的理由
why you might not want to go along with colonial resistance.

可以解释为什么你不大可能会赞同殖民地的反抗
Some people maybe were really aggressively loyal to the Crown.

可能有些人确实一直坚持忠于王室
Maybe that was where their actions were coming from.

也许那是他们如此作为的缘由
Maybe some people just were not excited about the idea

也许有些人只是没有
of independence and war,

为独立和战争的构想而激动
and maybe that would have been their breaking point.

那将可能成为他们的分水岭
Some, like the Quakers, may have been just trying

有些人如贵格会教徒只是想要
to remain neutral or pacifist,

保持中立或爱好和平