Britain's Tea Act of 1773 made things worse.

英国 1773 年的《茶叶法》使情况变得更糟。

The Tea Act was basically a tax on the tea that was sold in the American colonies.

《茶叶法》基本上是对在美国殖民地销售的茶叶征税。

The law that these men wanted to protest, wanted to take revenge over, was something called the Tea Act.

这些人想要抗议， 想要报复的法律，就是茶叶法案。

A third measure was the Tea Act of July 2,1767, aimed at the tea trade which the Americans carried on illegally with foreigners.

第三项措施是 1767 年 7 月 2 日的茶叶法，旨在打击美国人与外国人非法进行的茶叶贸易。

After the British Parliament passed this Tea Act, however, they decided not to kill anyone but to show the British government that they were unhappy.

然而，在英国议会通过茶叶法案后，他们决定不杀任何人， 而是向英国政府表明他们的不满。

The second reason the Tea Act made the colonists angrywas because it, of course, like all taxes, it took money away from the colonists themselves.

《茶叶法》让殖民者愤怒的第二个原因是，当然，就像所有的税收一样， 它从殖民者自己那里拿走了钱。

After a few years of calm, Parliament passed the Tea Act in May 1773 in an attempt to prevent the East India Company from going bankrupt.

经过几年的平静，议会于 1773 年 5 月通过了《茶叶法案》，试图阻止东印度公司破产。

Moreover, Parliament decided to relieve the British East India Company of the financial difficulties into which it had fallen partly by reason of the Tea Act and the colonial boycott that followed.

此外，议会决定解除英国东印度公司部分因茶叶法和随后的殖民抵制而陷入的财政困难。