depending on the immediate circumstances,

根据最新的形势发展
obviously people changed their views.

显然人们会随时改变他们的态度
Now there were any number of reasons to stay loyal to the crown,

继续忠于王室可以有许多理由
and I'm guessing--

而我猜...
certainly if i hadn't studied this time period

当然如果我没有研究过这个时期
I would assume that there is this stereotypical image of the Tory

我会假设有一种刻板的托利党形象
who one would assume is this sort of aristocratic person,

人们都据此认为托利党就是那些贵族
this really rich person

那些真正的富人
in a very fancy wig with very fancy clothes,

戴着花式假发穿着华丽的衣服
taking snuff and doing a variety

吸着鼻烟
of other aristocratic eighteenth-century gentry kind

做各种18世纪上流社会常有的事情
of things and sort of sneering at the rebels.

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