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。

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。

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。

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。

But this might not always be for the interest of the mother country.

但这可能并不总是为了祖国的利益。

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。

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 most important part of the expense of government, indeed, that of defence and protection, has constantly fallen upon the mother country.

政府开支的最重要部分， 实际上是国防和保护开支， 一直落在母国身上。

Though their manufacture and trade were controlled in the interests of the mother country, they also enjoyed great advantages in her markets.

尽管他们的制造和贸易受到母国利益的控制，但他们在母国的市场上也享有很大的优势。

They had crossed a dangerous ocean to create a little England in a new place, to trade with the mother country and to spread their religion.

他们远渡重洋，在一个新的地方建立了小的英国国家。

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。

The English colonists have never yet contributed any thing towards the defence of the mother country, or towards the support of its civil government.

英国殖民者从未为保卫祖国或支持其公民政府做出任何贡献。

The interest of our American colonies was regarded as the same with that of the mother country. Their wealth was considered as our wealth.

我们美洲殖民地的利益被认为与祖国的利益相同。他们的财富被认为是我们的财富。

That was the product of the long strife with the mother country which culminated in union for the war of independence.

那是与祖国长期斗争的产物，最终以独立战争的联合告终。

Although Britain was a powerful imperial power, Hamilton suggested that the economic potential of the American colonies was far greater than that of the mother country.

尽管英国是一个强大的帝国主义国家，汉密尔顿认为美洲殖民地的经济潜力远远大于其母国。

England said to her American colonies: 'You shall not trade with the rest of the world for such manufactures as are produced in the mother country.

英国对她的美洲殖民地说：‘你们不得与世界其他地方进行母国生产的制成品贸易。

The great distance, too, from the mother country, would enable the colonists to evade more or less, by smuggling, the monopoly which the company enjoyed against them.

与祖国的遥远距离也使殖民者能够通过走私或多或少地逃避公司对他们享有的垄断。

Before this law, many different sorts of foreign goods might have been bought cheaper in the plantations than in the mother country, and some may still.

在这部法律出台之前，许多不同种类的外国商品在种植园里的价格可能比在祖国便宜，有些现在仍然如此。

With passion the loyalists fought against the inevitable or with anguish of heart they left as refugees for a life of uncertainty in Canada or the mother country.

忠诚者满怀激情地与不可避免的事情作斗争，或者怀着痛苦的心情离开他们作为难民，在加拿大或祖国过着不确定的生活。

By thus parting good friends, the natural affection of the colonies to the mother country, which, perhaps, our late dissensions have well nigh extinguished, would quickly revive.

通过这样分开好朋友，殖民地对祖国的自然感情，也许，我们最近的纷争几乎已经熄灭，将很快恢复。