The natural diversity of human beings, thenatural tendency of man to go into the future like an explorer finding his ownway, was released in those English colonies on the Atlantic coast.

人类天生多样化，天生就倾向于像一个探索者找到他自己的路那样走向未来，人类的这些天性在那些亚特兰大海岸线的英国殖民地里被释放了出来。

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They used English ships to transport goods to non-British colonies.

他们用英国船只把货物运送到非英属殖民地。

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The American colonies likely learned the tradition from the English and French.

美洲的殖民地可能是接受了英国和法国的传统。

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Troops from the English colonies that would become the United States supported the British army in the war.

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These colonies are now independent, but English still is one of the languages spoken.

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The English,Dutch and French began to plant cacao trees in their own colonies.

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In days of old, all products sold in the English Colonies had to suffer the regulations of being shipped on British ships from British ports and taxed accordingly.

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In the mid-17th century, English law ruled that any European wines shipped to the colonies had to go via British ports.

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The English learned the art of self-government, and the American colonies took it even further.

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