The other early English settlements in North America were much to the north of Virginia, in the present state of Massachusetts.

北美其它早期的英国殖民地多数在弗吉尼亚的北部（现在的马萨诸塞州）。

The earliest English poetry was written in a kind of English that is now difficult to understand.

最早的英语诗歌是用一种现在很难理解的英语写成的。

The story of the swan's last song found a place in the works of other writers, including the early English writersChaucer and Shakespeare.

人们在其他作家的作品中也可以读到关于天鹅最后之歌的故事，包括英国早期作家乔叟以及莎士比亚。

There were Tories among them, and liberals, and one red, William Owen, a grandson, I think, certainly a descendant, of Robert Owen, the first of the early English socialists.

他们中有保守党和自由主义者，还有一个红色，威廉欧文，我认为，肯定是早期英国社会主义者罗伯特欧文的孙子。

Prior to becoming a state, however, North Carolina was home to some of the earliest English colonies in the Americas, including the lost colony of Roanoke, whose inhabitants all mysteriously vanished some time between 1587 and 1590.

在成为州之前，北卡罗来纳州是美国最早的英国殖民地，其中还包括消失的殖民地罗阿诺克，那里的居民在1587年到1590年的某个时间段，全部神秘消失了。