The colonists claimed that the two had fallen in love.

地居声称他们两相爱了。

Also, the colonists did not have any representatives in Parliament.

而且，地居在会没有代表。

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

战争期间，多达3万美洲地居加入英军阵营。

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

地居被允许通过选举产生的议会创制自己的法律。

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%的地居支持英。

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

地居对英官员越来越不满，无论是对税收政策还是其他干预措施。

The colonists were not impressed by British excuses for hitting them in the wallet.

地居完全不为所动他们不能容忍英这样压榨他们的财产。

It said the colonists had to buy a British stamp for every piece of printed paper they used.

据说地居使用的每一张印刷纸都必须购买印花税券。

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

地居对此很不满，因为之前英政府对他们大多是置之不理。

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

后来我们发迹了，周游一番，以富有的地居身份返回英，购置了产业。

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

他们需要想方设法挣更多的钱，所以英会决定，向北美地居征税。

This attempt to tax the colonies was unsuccessful, but it kicked off years of hostility between the colonists and the British.

向地居征税的企图没有成功，这却开启了地居与英数年的敌对。

The colonists wanted to make peace.

地居想与英讲和。

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

英政府对待地居与对待本土公的态度不同，英政府要求地缴纳特别税款。

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

为此英也出台了一系列经济政策想要压制这些地居地居也不没有甘于受压迫。

After this, the colonists became angry with King George.

此后，地居对乔治王的行为很不满。

Afterwards, British Parliament passed a group of laws designed to punish the colonists and regain control of the colonies.

之后，英会通过了一系列法律来惩罚地居，并试图重新控制地。

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，许多美洲的地居对英政府的不公平对待越来越愤慨。

Colonial americans were like the chinese of today.

美地居就像今天的中一样。

61. Why did the colonists fight the British?

61. 为什么地居要与英作战？