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.

它的设计者则是按照他们从母国带来的参考书进行设计。

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。

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们各自母国的开支来源，而不是收入来源。

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

他坚持认为，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来。

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。

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

英国评论员似乎对美国人在这方面的语法方面比祖国更保守的不寻常情况感到困惑。

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来保卫祖国。

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

他热爱祖国成熟的古老文化，经常送儿子到牛津或剑桥求学。