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这一方面是因为一般的英国人热衷 于用自己的双手工作，另一方
面是因为他觉得，不管什么原因，有许多家庭工作他必须自己动手去
做，而这些工作在几年前都会由雇佣的专业人士帮忙完成。
The for this is a financial one: the high cost of labor has meant that
builders' and decorators'costs have reached a level which makes them so
high that the house-proud English people ofmodest means hang back. So,
if
they
wish
to
keep
their
houses
looking
bright
and
smart,
theyhave
to
deal with some of the repairs and decorating themselves. As a result, there
has grownup in the post-war years what is sometimes referred to as the
这种现象的主要原因是经济因素：高成本的
劳动力意味着建筑工人和装修工人的费用达到了非常高的水 平，使得
节俭的、讲究家里摆设的英国人退缩了。
因此，如果 他们想让他们的房子保持明亮整洁的话，他们不得不
自己去做一些修理和装修工作。
这样，在战后几年里，在英国形成了一种运动，有时被称为
“
自己
动手运动。
The
since spread into a muchwider field. Nowadays there seem to be very few
things that cannot be made by the
your self
自己动手运
动由家庭装修开始，
但从那时候起到现在，
已经扩展到了 更多的领域。
如今，似乎没有什么事情不能通过
“
自己动手的方法来解决。
A
number
of
magazines
and
handbooks
exist
to
show
hopeful
handymen of ages just how easyit is to build anything from a coffee table
to a fifteen-foot sailing boat. All you need, it seems, isa hammer and a few
nails. You follow the simple instructions step-by-step and, before youknow
where you are, the finished article stands before you, complete in every
detail.有许多杂志和手册向不同年龄段的心灵手巧的人展示，
制作从咖
啡桌到
15
英尺
(4.5
米
)
的独栀小艇等一切东西是多么容易，
只需一把榔
头和几枚钉子就可以了。
你只要一步一步地跟着简单明晰的指 示做，还没等你反应过来，
成品就会出现在你面前，所有的部分一应俱全。
It was not a sudden and violent overturning of the political and social
framework, such aslater occurred in France and Russia, when both were
already
independent
nations.
这次革命并不是对政治和社会框架的一次
突然和猛烈的颠覆
——
像后来在已经是独立国家的法国和俄国所爆发
的革命那样。
Significant changes were ushered in, but they were not breathtaking.
What happened wasaccelerated evolution rather than outright revolution.
During
the
conflict
itself
people
wenton
working
and
praying,
marrying
and
playing.
Most
of
them
were
not
seriously
disturbed
bythe
actual
fighting, and many of the more isolated communities scarcely knew that a
war wason.
革命带来了重大的变化，
但并非翻天覆地，
所发生的只是进
化的 加速，而不是一场彻底的革命
;
在冲突期间，人们仍然上班、做礼
拜、结婚、玩耍。< br>
多数人并没有受到实际战斗的严重影响。
在许多较闭塞的社区对这场战争几乎一无所知。
America's War of Independence heralded the birth of three modern
nations.
One
was
Canada,which
received
its
first
large
influx
of
English-speaking population from the thousands ofloyalists who fled there
from
the
United
States.
Another
was
Australia,
which
became
a
penalcolony now that America was no longer available for prisoners and
debtors.
The
thirdnewcomer-the
United
States-based
itself
squarely
on
republican
principles.
Yet
even
the
politicaloverturn
was
not
so
revolutionary
as
one
might
suppose.
美国独立战争宣布了三个现代国家< br>的诞生，其中一个是加拿大。
加拿大的第一大批讲英语的流入人 口来自于成千上万英王的效忠
者，这些人从美国逃到了加拿大。
另一个国家是澳大利亚，因为美国不再是容纳罪犯和欠债者的国
度了，澳大利亚就变成了一个惩治罪犯 的殖民地
(
注：独立战争前，英
国政府将罪犯流放到美国
)
。
第三个国家就是美国，它完全建立在共和原则基础上。
即使政治上的颠覆也不如人们可能想象的那样具有革命性。