单词 | boston tea party |
释义 | Boston Tea Party in British Englishnoun US history a raid in 1773 made by citizens of Boston (disguised as Native Americans) on three British ships in the harbour as a protest against taxes on tea and the monopoly given to the East India Company. The contents of several hundred chests of tea were dumped into the harbour Boston Tea Party in American English a protest (1773) against the British duty on tea imported by the American colonies: colonists boarded British ships in Boston harbor and dumped the tea overboard Examples of 'Boston Tea Party' in a sentence |
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