The colonists claimed that the two had fallen in love.

殖地居声称他们两了。

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

而且，殖地居在国会没有代表。

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

战争期间，多达3万美洲殖地居加入英军阵营。

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

但殖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%的殖地居支持英国。

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

殖地居英国官员越来越不满，无论是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.

但殖地居完全不为所动他们不能容忍英国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.

据说殖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.

殖地居很不满，因为之前英国政府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，以富有的殖地居身份返回英国，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，所以英国国会决定，向北美殖地居征税。

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

向殖地居征税的企图没有成功，但这却开启了殖地居与英国数年的敌。

The colonists wanted to make peace.

殖地居想与英国讲和。

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

英国政府待殖地居与待本土公的态度不同，英国政府要求殖地缴纳特别税款。

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

为英国也出台了一系列经济政策想要压制这些殖地居但殖地居也不没有甘于受压迫。

After this, the colonists became angry with King George.

后，殖地居乔治国王的行为很不满。

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

之后，英国国会通过了一系列法律来惩罚殖地居，并试图重新控制殖地。

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，许多美洲的殖地居英国政府的不公平待越来越愤慨。

Colonial americans were like the chinese of today.

美国殖地居就像今天的中国一样。

61. Why did the colonists fight the British?

61. 为什么殖地居要与英国作战？