He feared it would re-open the bitter, national debate about slavery.

VOA: special.2009.04.30

It's not as though someday you're going to open up an issue of National Geographic where the cover story's going to be "At long last, explorers have discovered the number two."

你不会在某一天,打开一本国家地理时,发现上面会印着这样的封面故事,探险家们终于发现了数字2

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

I think what's happening is that we're becoming more national and Milwaukeeans are starting to think more like Angelinos that it's one boom so they start to expect it to happen in Milwaukee.

我认为这是由于,随着市场的全国化,密尔沃基人的想法向洛杉矶人看齐,这是一个繁荣期,密尔沃基希望他们也会迎来楼市春天

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

In her speech, she called for national unity: "We are one,we Americans,we're one, and we reject any intruder who seeks to divide us on the basis of race and color.

VOA: special.2010.05.09

Part of this reconstructing of national identity often has as much to do with who you're not, not absolute, not Catholic, not French as it does with you who imagine yourself to be.

对国家认同感的重建,一定程度上基于你不是什么,即不是独裁者,不是天主教,不是法国人,这点和自身定位同样至关重要

耶鲁公开课 - 欧洲文明课程节选

"They're not only bringing the opportunity to give Afghans more security,working closely with the Afghan national security forces, but bringing very important development dollars."

VOA: standard.2010.05.26

And you know, even if people are doing these things anonymously, or they're part of a big national sample where they're one of thousands and thousands of subjects, people don't necessarily like to say that they're doing something that they don't think they should be doing.

你知道,即使人们参加的是匿名调查,或他们是全国性样本中的一员,他们是那数以千计万计总体中的一员,人们似乎也没有必要说出,他们做的一些,自认为不应该做的事情

耶鲁公开课 - 关于食物的心理学、生物学和政治学课程节选

But it says that has allowed some long-standing disputes among national and regional leaders to re-emerge and become a concern for the long term.

VOA: standard.2009.03.31

Analysts blame the sharp increase on the turbulent national elections and a re-emerging Taliban facing a surge of U.S.troops, determined to take the provinces.

VOA: standard.2010.05.26

"We're looking at a process where we can take national commitments and have those enforced,"

VOA: standard.2009.09.28

"We're going to watch this unfold and were going to act in America's national interests,".

VOA: standard.2009.06.29

To slow the spread of the virus and relieve the strain on the country's health system, the government has set up a national pandemic flu service, where people who suspect they're infected can get a diagnosis and prescription for antiviral drugs over the phone or Internet.

VOA: standard.2009.07.31