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。

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

它的设计者则是按从母国带的参考书进行设计。

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

英联邦公民怀着良好意愿到母国。

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。

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

后出口回母国的美国铸币数量不容小觑。

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

但这可能并不总是为了祖国的利益。

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

热爱祖国成熟的古老文化，经常送儿子到牛桥求学。

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

美洲的欧洲殖民地还没有提供任何军事力量保卫祖国。

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。

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合告终。

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

尽管的制造和贸易受到母国利益的控制，但在母国的市场上也享有很大的优势。

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.

远渡重洋，在一个新的地方建立了小的英国国家。

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

坚持认为，在实际利益范围内没有任何东西可以将殖民地与母国联系起。

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

我美洲殖民地的利益被认为与祖国的利益相同。的财富被认为是我的财富。

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

因此，英国殖民者之间比祖国居民之间更加平等。

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各自母国的开支源，而不是收入源。

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.

尽管英国是一个强大的帝国，汉密尔顿却指出， 美洲殖民地的经济潜力远超母国。

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， 实际上是国防和保护开支， 一直落在母国身上。