Well actually, he was president of the continental congress right here in Philadelphia in 1776.

事实上，1776 年，他是大陆会议的主席，就在费城。

While it might have separated them, Abigail had been proud of her husband's vital work in the continental congress.

虽然这可能会让他们分开，但阿比盖尔一直为她丈夫在大陆议会的重要工作感到自豪。

Not long after this battle the Second continental congress sent another letter to King George III called the Olive Branch Petition.

此次战役结束不久，第二次大陆议会再次给乔治三世发送了信函，史称《橄榄枝请愿书》。

After a successful legal career in New York City, he served as a member of the first and second continental congresses.

在纽约市取得成功的法律职业生涯后，他担任第一届和第二届大陆会议的成员。

Another year later the continental congress adopted a resolution calling for separation from Great Britain for good. A group of 5 delegates headed by Thomas Jefferson composed the official Declaration of Independence.

一年之后，大陆会议作出了永久脱离大不列颠的决定以托马斯杰佛森为首的五名殖民地代表共同撰写了官方的《独立宣言》文件。

While the radicals wanted to show solidarity with Boston by boycotting British trade, the New Yorkers did not wish to act alone and called for a continental congress similar to the Stamp Act Congress.

虽然激进分子希望通过抵制英国贸易来表达与波士顿的团结，但纽约人并不希望单独行动， 并呼吁召开类似于《印花税法案》国会的大陆会议。

Five hundred different people, perhaps, who, in different ways, act immediately under the continental congress, and five hundred thousand, perhaps, who act under those five hundred, all feel, in the same manner, a proportionable rise in their own importance.

也许有五百个不同的人，他们以不同的方式直接在大陆会议的领导下行动，也许有五十万人在这五百人的领导下行动，他们都以同样的方式感到自己的重要性成比例地上升。