1.In the 17th and 18th centuries, millions of Englishmen left their mother country for North America.

在17～18世纪时，有好几百万的英人离开祖移民至北洲。

2.The British, however, still believed that the purpose of a colony was to serve the mother country.

然而，英人仍然认为建立殖民地的目的是为祖服务。

3.Instead, its creators turned to the reference books which they had brought with them from their mother country.

它的设计者则是按照他们从母带来的参考书进行设计。

4.The number of American coinings later exported back to the mother country should not be underestimated.

后来出口回母的币数量不容小觑。机翻

5.Their situation has placed them less in the view, and less in the power of their mother country.

他们的处境使他们较少受到祖的关注，较少受祖的控制。机翻

6.There was nothing in the sphere of practical interest, he insisted, which should bind the colonies to the mother country.

他坚持认为，在实际利益范围内没有任西可以将殖民地与母联系起来。机翻

7.But this might not always be for the interest of the mother country.

但这可能并不总是为了祖的利益。机翻

8.The European colonies of America have never yet furnished any military force for the defence of the mother country.

洲的欧洲殖民地还没有提供任军事力量来保卫祖。机翻

9.There is more equality, therefore, among the English colonists than among the inhabitants of the mother country.

因此，英殖民者之间比祖居民之间更加平等。机翻

10.British commentators seem flummoxed by the unusual situation of Americans being more conservative than the mother country in this aspect of grammar.

英评论员似乎对人在这方面的语法方面比祖更保守的不寻常情况感到困惑。机翻

11.That was the product of the long strife with the mother country which culminated in union for the war of independence.

那是与祖长期斗争的产物，最终以独立战争的联合告终。机翻

12.They had crossed a dangerous ocean to create a little England in a new place, to trade with the mother country and to spread their religion.

他们远渡重洋，在一个新的地方建立了小的英家。

13.The interest of our American colonies was regarded as the same with that of the mother country. Their wealth was considered as our wealth.

我们洲殖民地的利益被认为与祖的利益相同。他们的财富被认为是我们的财富。机翻

14.Loving the ripe old culture of the mother country, he often sent his sons to Oxford or Cambridge for their education.

他热爱祖成熟的古老文化，经常送儿子到牛津或剑桥求学。机翻

15.Such colonies, therefore, have been a source of expense, and not of revenue, to their respective mother countries.

因此，这些殖民地一直是它们各自母的开支来源，而不是收入来源。机翻

16.Though their manufacture and trade were controlled in the interests of the mother country, they also enjoyed great advantages in her markets.

尽管他们的制造和贸易受到母利益的控制，但他们在母的市场上享有很大的优势。机翻

17.Although Britain was a powerful imperial power, Hamilton suggested that the economic potential of the American colonies was far greater than that of the mother country.

尽管英是一个强大的帝主义家，汉密尔顿认为洲殖民地的经济潜力远远大于其母。机翻

18.England said to her American colonies: 'You shall not trade with the rest of the world for such manufactures as are produced in the mother country.

英对她的洲殖民地说：‘你们不得与世界其他地方进行母生产的制成品贸易。机翻

19.The most important part of the expense of government, indeed, that of defence and protection, has constantly fallen upon the mother country.

政府开支的最重要部分， 实际上是防和保护开支， 一直落在母身上。机翻

20.In this respect, therefore, all the European colonies have, without exception, been a cause rather of weakness than of strength to their respective mother countries.

因此，在这方面，所有欧洲殖民地都无一例外地对其各自的母造成了削弱而不是增强。机翻