nation 的定义
- a large body of people, associated with a particular territory, that is sufficiently conscious of its unity to seek or to possess a government peculiarly its own: The president spoke to the nation about the new tax.
- the territory or country itself: the nations of Central America.
- a member tribe of an American Indian confederation.
- an aggregation of persons of the same ethnic family, often speaking the same language or cognate languages.
nation 近义词
country with its own government
更多nation例句
- As a whole, the US is currently 11th worldwide and fifth among developed nations for Covid-19 deaths.
- The region’s nations have all had their eyes on the prize since the discovery of gas there a few years ago.
- Their decisions will almost inevitably make the nation more divided, with those worst off relegated to a nightmare future in which they are left to fend for themselves.
- As a nation, we became inured to a national death toll that has only recently dropped below a thousand people a day.
- A downtown federal jail now has one of the steepest numbers of active cases in any federal prison facility in the nation.
- Congress is now 92 percent Christian, resembling more to a papal enclave than our religiously diverse nation.
- If Congress accurately reflected our nation on the basis of race, about 63 percent would be white, not 80 percent.
- They carved a refuge out of the wilderness and then, in 200 years, built it into the most powerful nation on earth.
- The television networks interrupt their broadcasts to take the nation directly to Selma.
- And besides, as a nation, we hold this truth to be self-evident: resolutions are made to be broken.
- My son,” said Grabantak one evening to Chingatok, “if we are henceforth to live in peace, why not unite and become one nation?
- He could not tell what I meant by secrets of state, where an enemy or some rival nation were not in the case.
- For the first time in his experience the Corsican had to meet the forces of a nation and not of a government.
- Gourges fitted out three vessels and 150 soldiers at his own expense to revenge their death, and repair the honor of his nation.
- He made a violent assault against the nation of his enemies, and in the descent he destroyed the adversaries.