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，在一新的地方建立了小的英国国家。

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国带来的参考书进行设计。

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

在17～18世纪时，有好几百万的英国人离开祖国移民至北美洲。

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

然而，英国人仍然认为建立殖民地的目的是为祖国服务。

Citizens of the British Empire coming to the mother country with good intent.

英联邦公民怀着良好意愿来到母国。

So my father's country, my mother's country, you know.

所以我的父亲那边的家族，我母亲那边的家族，你知道的。

It was found, however, that the price of all goods from the mother country rose exactly in proportion as they raised the denomination of their coin, so that their gold and silver were exported as fast as ever.

然而，人们发现，所有来自母国的商品的价格都随着货币面额的增加而上，因此他们的金银出口速度与以往一样快。

So in the years around 1900, one crucial question in the tariff debate was, what would tariffs mean for the relations between Great Britain It's the mother country and particularly the dominions as well as the colonies.

因此，在19世纪期间， 一重要的发展是白人定居的殖民地试图增强其相对自主权和主权。 掌控贸易政策， 进而掌握外交政策， 是实现这一目标的步骤。 所以在1900前后的几里，税辩论中的一问题是：税将对大英帝国（母国）及其特别自治领和殖民地之间的系产生何种影响。

Land is still so cheap, and, consequently, labour so dear among them, that they can import from the mother country almost all the more refined or more advanced manufactures cheaper than they could make them for themselves.

土地仍然很便宜，因此劳动力对他们来说仍然很昂贵，以至于他们可以从母国进口几乎所有更精致或更先进的制成品，价格比他们自己制造的便宜。

On arriving at manhood, Mr. Pyncheon had visited England, where he married a lady of fortune, and had subsequently spent many years, partly in the mother country, and partly in various cities on the continent of Europe.

成之后，品钦先生访问了英国，在那里他娶了一位幸运的女士，随后又度过了很多，部分时间是在祖国，部分时间是在欧洲大陆的各城市。

As we've said before, the experience is different in all these different slave societies based on, you know, who the mother country is, what the dominant religion is, the way slavery develops, the crops involved.

正如我们之前所提到的，基于母国的不同、主流宗教的差异、奴隶制度的发展方式以及所涉及的农作物类型，这些不同奴隶社会的经历各有特点。

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.

尽管英国是一强大的帝国，汉密尔顿却指出， 美洲殖民地的经济潜力远超母国。

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国利益的控制，但他们在母国的市场上也享有很大的优势。

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

英国评论家似乎对美国人在这方面的语法比母国更加保守这一不同寻常的情况感到困惑。

Because while most people went to London, to the mother country, to home, she decided that she would go to the States.

因为当大多数人都去了伦敦，去了母国， 去了家的时候， 她决定去美国。

107.During the National Day, the whole nation is filled with happy atmosphere, streets full of balloons and red flags and every Chinese hopes our mother country become more and more powerful.

国庆节期间，整国家处处都是欢乐的氛围，街道上也处处是气球和红旗。每一位中国人都希望自己的祖国越来越强大。

Jefferson's case against the mother country was rejected by hesitant Virginians as too bold, but when it appeared in pamphlet form, the essay made Jefferson a major spokesman for the resistance movement.

犹豫不决的弗吉尼亚人拒绝接受杰斐逊反对母国的论点, 认为它过于大胆, 但当它以小册子的形式出现时, 这篇文章使杰斐逊成为抵抗运动的主要发言人。

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

后来出口回母国的美国铸币数量不容小觑。

The pretence for raising the denomination of the coin was to prevent the exportation of gold and silver, by making equal quantities of those metals pass for greater sums in the colony than they did in the mother country.

提高硬币面额的借口是阻止黄金和白银的出口，方法是让等量的这些金属在殖民地比在母国的价值更高。

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

那是与祖国长期斗争的产物，最终以独立战争的联告终。