a war that was costing the government three million dollars a day and the lives of the nation's young men.

VOA: special.2009.12.10

And now you are on a council advising the president on how to move forward obviously in a pluralistic nation.

现在，您在一个委员供职，为总统,就如何明显推动美国成为多元化国家提出建议。

普林斯顿公开课 - 人性课程节选

And most people in London and UK follow a football team. It's quite a sporting nation.

大部分在英国伦敦的人，都追足球队。这是个足球大国。

知道朴智星吗？ - SpeakingMax英语口语达人

It was the first reported drop in American cancer cases and deaths since the nation began collecting such information.

VOA: special.2009.01.13

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

From Mexico, President Obama traveled Friday to the Caribbean nation of Trinidad and Tobago for the Fifth Summit of the Americas.

VOA: special.2009.04.18

And you can join on to the Red Sox nation on top of that, and part of being a good Red Sox fan is knowing the statistics of your team.

除此之外你们可以,加入红袜队的国度，作为一个好的红袜队球迷,也是了解你们支持球队的,数据的一部分。

麻省理工公开课 - 化学原理课程节选

The cooler days of fall are a good time to explore the outdoors in and around the nation's capital.

VOA: special.2009.09.21

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

He united the nation. And he took the first steps that destroyed the institution of slavery in America.

VOA: special.2009.02.27

But even if you're totally nation-centric and even if you were only concerned with the United States, you still have to know what's going on around the world.

但即使你是一名完美的爱国主义者,即使你只关心美国的情况,你也得知道周围世界在发生着什么

耶鲁公开课 - 关于食物的心理学、生物学和政治学课程节选

Seven states and the nation's capital held primary elections on Tuesday to choose candidates for the November elections.

VOA: special.2010.09.18

Now,that has changed, for sure; but,the centralization of the French government and the domination of Paris over the life of the nation is very difficult to change, over a long period of time.

现在,情况已经发生了改变,但是法国政府的中央集权化,以及巴黎在国民生活中的支配地位,在相当时间段内,都很难得以改变

耶鲁公开课 - 1871年后的法国课程节选

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

Going forward I like to talk with you about health reforms Talk about two aspects of reform one what do you think are the most important reforms that we as a nation need Secondly what is politically and socially feasible doable, achievable?

接着说,我想跟你聊聊医疗改革,谈谈改革的两个方面,一方面，您认为,我们国家,最需要进行改革的是什么,其次，从政治方面,和社会方面而言,什么是可行的,可做的，可是实现的？

普林斯顿公开课 - 国际座谈会课程节选

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

A sinking dollar means a poorer nation and a superpower with a sinking currency is a contradiction in terms."

美元疲软意味着国家的衰落,而美国本身又是个超级大国,两者未免自相矛盾“

斯坦福公开课 - 经济学课程节选

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

VOA: special.2009.09.12

and it doesn't matter really at all, you know, what nation you are from.

你是来自哪个国家的其实真的不重要。

如果是在考虑留学 - SpeakingMax英语口语达人

It continued to affect the nation. And it was the most important issue of Millard Fillmore's presidency.

VOA: special.2009.04.16

And so I guess people come to look at their nation's stolen treasures

所以，我猜人们是来看他们国家被盗的宝物的，

世界的宝物都聚于此 - SpeakingMax英语口语达人

Near the Arctic Circle, it was the final part of the nation to be explored and settled.

VOA: special.2009.08.02

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

These speeches caused great concern among many of the traditional business and conservative leaders of the nation.

VOA: special.2011.03.31

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

"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

and the pressure of competing in your home nation.

并且适应在自己祖国比赛的压力。

正准备奥运会 - SpeakingMax英语口语达人

Among them were former President Bill Clinton, his wife Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton, the Reverend Jesse Jackson, and Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan.

VOA: special.2009.03.08

and it's an oil-based nation,

国家收入主要依靠石油。

请支持一下社团小组 - SpeakingMax英语口语达人

The second half of verse 5 and 6 gives the reward: God is conferring on the Israelites this elevated status ; of royalty, of priesthood; "You'll be to me a kingdom of priests, and a holy nation."

诗5余下的部分和诗6，说明了遵守的奖赏：,上帝将会使犹太人的地位提升,忠诚的，祭司的国家;,“你们要归我作祭司的国度，为圣洁的国家“

耶鲁公开课 - 旧约导论课程节选