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目是为祖国服务。

Instead, its creators turned to the reference books which they had brought with them from their mother country.

它设计者则是按照他们从母国带来参考书进行设计。

The number of American coinings later exported back to the mother country should not be underestimated.

后来出口回母国美国铸币数量不容小觑。

Their situation has placed them less in the view, and less in the power of their mother country.

他们处境使他们较少受到祖国关注，较少受祖国控制。

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。

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利益。

The European colonies of America have never yet furnished any military force for the defence of the mother country.

美洲欧洲殖民地还没有提供任何军事力量来保卫祖国。

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。

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语法方面比祖国更保守不寻常情况感到困惑。

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产物，最终以独立战争联合告终。

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，在一个新地方建立了小英国国家。

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

我们美洲殖民地利益被认为与祖国利益相同。他们财富被认为是我们财富。

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

他热爱祖国成熟古老文化，常送儿子到牛津或剑桥求学。

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开支来源，而不是收入来源。

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

尽管他们制造和贸易受到母国利益控制，但他们在母国市场上享有很大优势。

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帝国主义国家，汉密尔顿认为美洲殖民地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.

英国对她美洲殖民地说：‘你们不得与世界其他地方进行母国生产制成品贸易。

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

政府开支最重要部分， 实际上是国防和保护开支， 一直落在母国身上。

In this respect, therefore, all the European colonies have, without exception, been a cause rather of weakness than of strength to their respective mother countries.

因此，在这方面，所有欧洲殖民地都无一例外地对其各自母国造成了削弱而不是增强。