Delegates from the thirteen colonies gathered.

13个殖民地的代表聚集起来。

English was overwhelmingly the language of the thirteen colonies.

英语较其他语言 曾占据了压倒性优势。

When the thirteen colonies won the Revolutionary War, America became a sovereign nation.

当十三州打赢了独立战争时，美利坚就变成了一个独立的国家。

Worse than that, there was a British governor in each of the thirteen colonies, not an American.

更糟糕的是，在13个殖民地中，每一块殖民地都有一个英国总督，而不是一个美国人。

In the late 1700s, the relationship between Great Britain and its thirteen colonies in North America began to crumble.

18世纪末，大英帝国和其北美十三州殖民地关系开始破裂。

In leadership and origin the thirteen colonies, except New York and Delaware, were English.

——在领导地位和起源方面，除纽约和特拉华州外，十三个殖民地都是英国人。

They also proposed that a meeting of delegates from all thirteen colonies be organized.

他们还提议组织一次所有十三个殖民地代表的会议。

He soon had mail moving swiftly among all thirteen colonies.

他很快就让邮件在所有 13 个殖民地之间迅速流动。

Over the past few years, the thirteen colonies had grown restless under British rule.

在过去的几年里， 十三个殖民地在英国的统治下变得焦躁不安。

Virginia was one of thirteen colonies belonging to Great Britain.

弗吉尼亚是属于英国的十三个殖民地之一。

Such kings and such ministers were not likely to arouse the slumbering resistance of the thirteen colonies across the sea.

这样的国王， 这样的大臣， 不可能激起对面十三个殖民地沉睡的反抗。

Editorial cartoons have been framing issues and framing debate from events, Ben Franklin, the live free or die, the segmented snake that rallied the thirteen colonies together.

评论性漫画会从各种事件中升华出问题并进行讨论。本·富兰克林， 要么自由要么死亡，把13个殖民地团结起来的锯形蛇。

Vermont was the first state to join after the original thirteen colonies, and is one of only four states that was an independent country before becoming a state.

佛蒙特是第一个加入最初十三个殖民地的州，也是仅有的在加入美国前为独立国家的四个州之一。

Britain didn't change its ways. War between the thirteen colonies and Britain broke out on April 19, 1775, at Lexington, Massachusetts.

英国没有改变它的方式。 1775 年 4 月 19 日，十三个殖民地与英国之间的战争在马萨诸塞州列克星敦爆发。

Nevertheless, from a weak confederation  of thirteen colonies in the 18th century, in less than two hundred years, the US had  become the most powerful nation in the world.

尽管如此，美国从 18 世纪由 13 个殖民地组成的弱小联邦，在不到 200 年的时间里， 一跃成为世界上最强大的国家。

Had their narrow views prevailed, the West, with its new democracy, would have been held in perpetual tutelage to the seaboard or perhaps been driven into independence as the thirteen colonies had been not long before.

如果他们的狭隘观点占了上风，那么拥有新民主主义的西方将永远受制于沿海地区，或者可能像不久前的十三个殖民地那样被迫独立。