It is rather for us to be here dedicated to the great task remaining before us that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion that we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain that this nation,under God, shall have a new birth of freedom and that government of the people, by the people,for the people, shall not perish from the earth."

VOA: special.2009.11.12

And as Walt Whitman wrote in poem after poem, and other poets did as well, and politicians said over and over and over and over America, and this United States, this nation formed there would be the beginning of a new man, a new start for humankind.

对此沃尔特·惠特曼和其他诗人,写下了众多的诗篇,政治家们也对此喋喋不休,这片土地上,在美利坚合众国,人们可以获得新生,这也是,人类的新起点

耶鲁公开课 - 美国内战与重建课程节选

This did not happen to those members of the nation of Israel who lived in the southern kingdom, Judah.

不过这并没有,在南边犹大部落重演。

耶鲁公开课 - 旧约导论课程节选

"It's threatening our children." "It's threatening our families and, more importantly, it's threatening the future of this nation."

VOA: standard.2010.07.02

You call for us to return to our values, the values that define this country as a nation.

您呼吁我们重拾价值观，那些将我们凝聚成一个民族的价值观。

普林斯顿公开课 - 国际座谈会课程节选

"And I think this nation is on the right track in promoting democratic consensus and promoting compromise."

VOA: standard.2009.08.27

And also in terms of people saying, Well, you know what, that's all well and good because this is really fundamentally a Christian nation.

另外一些人说，现在这样很好,因为美国从根本讲，是一个信仰基督教的国家。

普林斯顿公开课 - 人性课程节选

"I believe that this nation should commit itself to achieving the goal before this decade is out of landing a man on the moon and returning him safely to Earth,"

VOA: standard.2009.07.16

This is still a huge question for us when we think about nation building and building new states, how to create a legitimate authority.

这对我们来说依然是个庞大的问题,当我们思考国家的建设,建设一个新的国家，如何创造合法权力。

耶鲁公开课 - 政治哲学导论课程节选

And expanding and developing this science and engineering workforce is critical to the nation's economic innovation and productivity and competitiveness."

VOA: special.2010.04.01

Part of the poem's force derives from the status of this moment as something remembered, and remembered within the context of a nation at war.

诗歌的一部分力量来源于,事情被记起那一刻的状态，并且是在国家处于战争时期的情况下记起的。

耶鲁公开课 - 现代诗歌课程节选

Today we tell about the first woman chief of the Cherokee Nation, Wilma Mankiller, who died earlier this week.

VOA: special.2010.04.09

Again, we have to ask ourselves, we have to start thinking of the question about what does this mean for doing something about changing the world's diet, changing the nation's diet, changing the world's diet?

让我们来问问自己,考虑一下这个问题,改变一个国家的饮食文化,改变这个世界的饮食,这意味着什么

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 this is different. It involves the war, the ownership of human beings and the future of the divided nation.

VOA: special.2010.05.10

"This is ground zero for the nation." Democrats in the state Senate fled to the neighboring Midwestern state of Illinois.

VOA: special.2011.02.25

But possibly the biggest story of this year's World Cup is the history of the nation holding the huge event.

VOA: special.2010.06.09

But he believes this variety in music is informed by the variety in backgrounds of a nation of immigrants.

VOA: special.2010.07.19

For nine years this outdoor event organized by the Library of Congress has brought readers, writers and illustrators to the nation's capital.

VOA: special.2009.10.12

This week,President Barack Obama went before Congress and the nation to better explain his health care proposals.

VOA: special.2009.09.12

This week,Americans said goodbye to the last son of one of the nation's most politically influential families.

VOA: special.2009.08.29

This did not happen. The Dred Scott decision did not calm the storm that divided the nation.

VOA: special.2009.05.21

And nation building, social cohesion, is an important outcome for us in this World Cup.

VOA: special.2010.06.09

Representative Conyers spoke about what this woman of quiet strength meant to the nation.

VOA: special.2009.03.08

This represents the short time Texas was an independent nation battling Mexico for self-rule.

VOA: special.2011.01.23

He said, "The election of a man to the presidency by the American people, under the Constitution, is no reason for any attempt to dissolve this glorious nation."

VOA: special.2009.07.09

This is a moment of hope and pride for our nation."

VOA: special.2009.01.17

Later this week, Americans will celebrate the nation's Independence Day.

VOA: special.2009.06.29

But this is the great danger America faces -- that we will cease to be one nation and become instead a collection of interest groups, each seeking to satisfy private wants.

VOA: special.2010.05.09

He began to read: (Music) "Four score and seven years ago, our fathers brought forth on this continent,a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.

VOA: special.2009.11.12

Here is Christopher Cruise reading the Gettysburg Address: Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent, a new nation,conceived in liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.

VOA: special.2011.02.07