本文的具体研究方法采用了按照地域把北美十三个殖民地分为三个地区——新英格兰地区、中部和南部地区的研究方法。

The main method that the thesis had taken is to divide geographically the thirteen colonies of North America into three districts, i. e. New England, the middle and the south areas.

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This is also -I keep thinking how British we are; this is New England and this is the United States, a former British colony.

这也是...,我常想,我们真的很"英国",这里称为新英格兰地区,而美国过去也是英国的殖民地

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