As defence, however, is of much more importance than opulence, the act of navigation is, perhaps, the wisest of all the commercial regulations of England.

然而，由于防御比富裕重要得多，航海行为也许是英国所有商业法规中最明智的。

The private interest of our merchants and manufacturers may, perhaps, have extorted from the legislature these exemptions, as well as the greater part of our other commercial regulations.

我们的商人和制造商的私人利益可能已经从立法机构那里强行获得这些豁免，以及我们其他商业法规的大部分。

Although the British government, finding the Townshend revenue act a failure, repealed in 1770 all the duties except that on tea, it in no way relaxed its resolve to enforce the other commercial regulations it had imposed on the colonies.

——尽管英国政府发现 Townshend 税收法案失败，于 1770 年废除了除茶叶税之外的所有关税，但它并没有放松执行它强加给殖民地的其他商业法规的决心。