那些欧洲历史上比大多数的民族国家有着更长的历史的著名城市，有一种吸收外来人和容纳许多不同种类的社会现实的非凡能力。
The historic cities of Europe, which are far older than most nation states, retain a remarkable ability to absorb newcomers and accommodate many different kinds of social reality.
虽然他在许多方面都倾向于欧盟的整体化，但他也明白，民族国家并非欧洲的敌人。
Although he favours EU integration in many spheres, he does not believe that nation-states are the enemy of Europe.
他接着说，“这根本就不是用欧洲风格就可以整合的单一民族国家，而是羽翼丰满的大陆劲旅”。
“It is not an issue of integrating a European-style nation-state, but a full-fledged continental power,” he said.
上节课来了的人可能记得,我谈到一个观点,现代国家的形成和民族国家的构建,是联系欧洲历史的一个主题
Now, one of the points I made last week, for those of you who were here, is that one of the themes that ties European history together is the growth of the modern state, of state-making.
许多欧洲怀疑论者相似地表达他们更喜欢民族国家而不是布鲁塞尔。
Many Eurosceptics argue similarly, because they prefer nation-states to Brussels.
本尼迪克特.安德森 （Benedict Anderson ）认为，印刷术促使支离破碎的欧洲大陆上共用一种语言的读者自视为“想象共同体”，这对现代民族国家的形成极为重要。
Benedict Anderson thought print helped readers of a common language in a highly fragmented Europe think of themselves as an "imagined community, " crucial to forming the modern nation-state.
前者彰显了欧洲核心(法国)对民族国家身份的强调，而后者使法国认识到欧洲对法国利益有至关重要影响。
The first pointed to a reassertion of nation-states at the heart of Europe; the second led France to conclude that a European community was in its vital interest.
民族国家的社会一体化倚赖于民族意识，欧洲一体化则更多地需要欧洲认同。
Social integration within a nation-state relies on national consciousness while European integration is dependent on European self-identity.
“西方”包括古代希腊、罗马、中世纪的欧洲，近、现代的欧洲和北美民族国家。
"The West" includes ancient Greece, Rome, Europe in Middle Ages, modern Europe, countries in North America.
最后的一年事一撮银行老闆和跨国公司负责人想要的是欧洲的民族国家崩溃，让他们在便宜时购更多的资产，对吗？
The last thing a bunch of bank bosses and multinational executives wants is for the nation-states of Europe to collapse, allowing their assets to be bought up on the cheap. Right?
最后的一年事一撮银行老闆和跨国公司负责人想要的是欧洲的民族国家崩溃，让他们在便宜时购更多的资产，对吗？
The last thing a bunch of bank bosses and multinational executives wants is for the nation-states of Europe to collapse, allowing their assets to be bought up on the cheap. Right?
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