他们中许多人都是早期移民的后裔。

Many of them are descendants of the original settlers.

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早期移民到美国殖民地的爱尔兰人，其中许多契约奴仆，把庆祝圣帕·特里克节的爱尔兰传统带到了美国。

Early Irish settlers to the American colonies, many of whom were indentured servants, brought the Irish tradition of celebrating St. Patrick's feast day to America.

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迄今为止，是否这些早期移民有意识的驾船出航或是简单的在木筏上通过潮汐漂流旨在近岸水域的探险，仍处于激烈的争论中。

Yet whether these early migrants put out to sea deliberately in boats or simply drifted with the tides in rafts meant for near-shore exploration has been a matter of fierce debate.

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Just almost all the islands in that sea are inhabited by Greeks, mostly by the Greeks that came in that first wave of immigrants earlier on, not colonized during the eighth century and afterwards.

那片海域的诸岛上居住的几乎都是希腊人,他们大多都是早期的,第一批移民,而非八世纪以后的殖民者

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