As the nation prepared for a presidential election year, the South renewed its promise to defend slavery or leave the Union.

VOA: special.2009.07.02

This God is one who brings things into being, whether it's a cosmos from chaos, or now a new nation from a band of runaway slaves.

这个上帝使是一切得以存在的根源，不论是由混乱而来的宇宙秩序，或者是由一帮逃窜奴隶而来的新国度。

耶鲁公开课 - 旧约导论课程节选

Milton's would be an epic demonstrating the origins and ; the heroic achievement of his own nation, England; or maybe he'd be thinking a little broadly of Britain, which is England, Scotland and Wales.

这首史诗应该展示弥尔顿自己的祖国,英格兰的起源以及辉煌成就;,他想的范围可能更大一点，大不列颠，大不列颠包括英格兰，苏格兰和威尔士。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

In Canada,for example, indigenous -- or First Nation people live on average seven fewer years than Canadians of European ancestry.

VOA: special.2009.07.20

And America has to recognise that we're one nation playing our role and trying with other nations to create a world that stands for universal values or that lives up to universal values.

我们必须意识到，我们只是一个国家,做好我们的本分,试着和其他国家一道,建造一个拥有共同价值观的世界,或追求共同价值观的世界。

普林斯顿公开课 - 国际座谈会课程节选

Opposition Republican leaders agree on the need to raise the borrowing limit by August second or risk the nation's first default.

VOA: special.2011.07.15

Or Roosevelt, after World War Two, talking about our humility as a nation in the face of the sacrifice of our soldiers, or Lincoln, or Washington, These are people who understood that they were small parts of something much larger.

第二次世界大战之后，罗斯福总统，也讲过一个国家的谦逊,面对战士的牺牲，无论是林肯还是华盛顿，这些人都很请楚,他们都只是很渺小的一部分。

普林斯顿公开课 - 国际座谈会课程节选

And,it was called The City of the Big Shoulders or City of Broad Shoulders because of its importance to the nation.

VOA: special.2010.01.10

As two thousand nine ended, the nation's biggest banks rushed to repay money from the Troubled Asset Relief Program,or TARP.

VOA: special.2010.01.01

Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that nation, or any nation so conceived, and so dedicated,can long endure.

VOA: special.2011.02.07

"Now we are engaged in a great civil war testing whether that nation or any nation so conceived and so dedicated, can long endure.

VOA: special.2009.11.12

No nation,he said, should interfere with the rights or powers of any other nation in China.

VOA: special.2010.07.29

He said the nation had nothing to fear from immigrants who could not read or write.

VOA: special.2010.05.20

Hoover told the nation: "Economic depression cannot be cured by legislative action or executive decision."

VOA: special.2011.02.24

International law bars any nation or state from claiming lunar surfaces.

VOA: special.2010.03.02

Here is some of the Gettysburg Address: "Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that nation,or any nation so conceived and so dedicated, can long endure.

VOA: special.2009.02.06

Japan's defense minister, Yasukazu Hamada,said whether Pyongyang actually launches a satellite or a ballistic missile the country's military force is prepared to protect the nation.

VOA: standard.2009.04.03

He says any missile or rocket flying over Japan is unacceptable, and adds Japan will take approriate measures with anything that affects the nation's interests.

VOA: standard.2009.03.27

So it looks like what is supposed to be a simple enumeration or careful count of the nation's population this year will be anything but routine.

VOA: standard.2010.02.03

"At times the contentious battle is between the interests of the masses, the public,of the nation, of the people,and the interests of a special elite group, either family,cronies or political elements.

VOA: standard.2009.12.21

They have been repeatedly displaced by fighting between the nation's largest guerrilla group, the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia,or FARC, and a right-wing paramilitary group called the United Self-Defense Forces of Colombia.

VOA: standard.2009.03.22

"Pakistan is a nation which could either serve as a force for stability and progress in a volatile region, or it could become the epicenter for radicalism and violence on a cataclysmic scale,".

VOA: standard.2009.05.04

"This is a decision that we have to make as a nation. Stand with those judges who stood against that dictator Mr.Musharraf, or should we stand with the other ones, who actually defied and violated the constitution and the law,".

VOA: standard.2009.03.13

Coupled with snowboarder Jasey Jay Anderson's win in the parallel giant slalom and Canada's win in men's curling, the Canadians now lead the gold medal count with 13, the most the host nation has ever earned at an Olympics - winter or summer.

VOA: standard.2010.02.28