Most history experts today think that about twenty percent of the colonists supported Britain.

今天大多数历史学家认为，大约有20%的殖民地居民支持英国。

But the colonists were permitted to make their own laws through the elected assembly.

但殖民地居民被允许通过选举产生的议会创制自己的法律。

The colonists claimed that the two had fallen in love.

殖民地居民声称人相爱了。

During the summer of 1776, most American colonists were increasingly angry about what they considered unfair treatment by the British government.

在1776年夏天，许多美洲的殖民地居民对英国政府的不公平对待越来越愤慨。

Although the colonials as I will call them did more than their share of fighting against the French and the Indians on Britain's behalf they got very few of the benefits.

尽管这些殖民地居民在这场战争中殖民地居民超出必要的程度代表着英国与法国和印第人抗争但是最后几乎没有获得任何好处。

Court documents claim Refit was aligned with the texas militia group that believes only three percent of American colonists took up arms against the British in 1776.

法庭文件声称，费特与德克萨斯州民兵组织结盟，该组织认为，1776年只有3%的美国殖民地居民拿起武器反对英国人。

We prospered, we travelled, we came back as rich colonials to England, and we bought country estates.

后来我发迹了，周游，富有的殖民地居民身份返回英国，购置了产业。

Colonists grew more and more frustrated with British officials, both with tax policies and other interventions.

殖民地居民对英国官员越来越不满，无论是对税收政策还是其干预措施。

The colonists wanted to make peace.

殖民地居民想与英国讲和。

Three out of four did not know why the colonists fought the British during the Revolutionary War, which led to the founding of the United States.

四分之三的人不知道殖民地居民为何在独立战争期间与英国作战，而独立战争促使美国成立。

The British as a result tried various economic measures to put those colonials in their place but the colonials would not stay down.

为此英国也出台了系列经济政策想要压制这些殖民地居民但殖民地居民也不没有甘于受压迫。

The colonists were unhappy about this, as before they had been mostly left alone by the British government.

殖民地居民对此很不满，因为之前英国政府对大多是置之不理。

As many as thirty thousand Americans fought for the British during the war.

战争期间，多达3万美洲殖民地居民加入英军阵营。

Although the British eventually won the battle so many of their soldiers were killed or injured that they realized defeating the colonists would be a very difficult task.

尽管英军最终夺取了胜利，但士兵伤亡惨重，这使意识到击败殖民地居民相当困难。

In 1754 the British sent an expeditionary force to take Fort Ducane back. Washington was 2nd in command as he was a mere colonial.

1754年英国人曾经指派过支征军想要夺回杜肯堡，而华盛顿当时作为殖民地居民只是在行动中担任了二等指挥官。

The government treated colonists differently from citizens at home. It demanded special taxes from them.

英国政府对待殖民地居民与对待本土公民的态度不同，英国政府要求殖民地缴纳特别税款。

Upon becoming residents of the New World these colonists thought of themselves first as members of their colony and only then as subjects of the King of England.

在这些人看来，定居这片新世界后的首要身份是这些殖民地的居民其次才是英格兰皇室的被殖民者其次才是英格兰皇室的被殖民者。

They needed a way to make more money, and British Parliament decided to tax the North American colonists.

需要想方设法挣更多的钱，所英国国会决定，向北美殖民地居民征税。

New World territories. Since the English could spare only a few regular troops the colonists wound up doing more than their share of the fighting. On February 10th, 1763 the 7 years war was ended by the treaty of Paris.

各个地区，而英国由于只派出了很少的常规部队，因此殖民地居民就不得不投入更多的力量来抵抗法军 1763年2月10日《巴黎条约》标志着七年战争的结束。

King George refused even to read the letter and instead declared the colonists traitors in a state of open rebellion against the British Empire.

然而乔治国王甚至拒绝读这封信，还宣称殖民地居民处于场反对大英帝国公然的叛乱之中。