In an emotional speech on the floor of the Senate, Veteran-Democrat Robert Byrd, suggested the U.S.military mission and Afghanistan has become lost in what he called some broader scheme of nation-building.

VOA: standard.2009.10.15

So the nature of the world, post-cold war world is increasingly one about competition for markets, govern of one nation's markets.

因此冷战之后，市场的竞争,成为世界的主题，一国市场的管理，如果事实如此。

麻省理工公开课 - 媒体、教育、市场课程节选

Well, the Providence school system is not one of the best ones in the nation.

普罗维登斯的学校体系算不上是美国最好的体系。

丰富多彩的社团活动 - SpeakingMax英语口语达人

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

VOA: special.2010.07.19

It was becoming absolutely impossible, in fact, or at least much, much harder, to claim that there was a single expression of religious truth to which the English nation could consensually subscribe.

实际上，这是绝对不可能的，至少也是很难断言称,这种宗教真理是,整个英国都能勉强赞同的。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

Welcome to THE MAKING OF A NATION Welcome to THE MAKING OF A NATION American history in VOA Special English.

VOA: special.2009.11.26

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

Join us again next week for THE MAKING OF A NATION an American history series in VOA Special English.

VOA: special.2010.02.25

And that's what he did. And for the point of view of France, they emerged from the war with the reality that they are in victory a weaker nation than Germany is in defeat.

他就是这么干的,从法国这边来看,他们在战后的现实中发现,他们作为一个战胜国,比德国一个战败国还要弱小

耶鲁公开课 - 1871年后的法国课程节选

Join us again next week for THE MAKING OF A NATION -- an American history series in VOA Special English.

VOA: special.2010.06.03

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

Lincoln hoped his words might ease the sorrow over the loss of these men and lift the spirit of the nation.

VOA: special.2009.11.12

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

He said: "There are very few people who can say their actions and conduct changed the face of the nation.

VOA: special.2009.03.08

because our nation's going through so many different viewpoints of it.

因为在我们的国家，人们对这个问题众说纷纭。

给我结婚的自由 - SpeakingMax英语口语达人

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

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

Join us again next week for THE MAKING OF A NATION - an American history series in VOA Special English.

VOA: special.2010.04.22

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

The Chronicle of Philanthropy just reported the findings of its latest survey of the nation's four hundred biggest charities.

VOA: special.2009.11.02

But Britain is very much a nation of entrepreneurship.

但是，英国是一个具有企业家精神的大国。

激励创业 - SpeakingMax英语口语达人

So I felt the story of a nation trying to industrialize C almost overnight C was perfect for me."

VOA: special.2009.05.10

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

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

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

They also said it was a bad idea for the United States to take control of any nation in the Caribbean.

VOA: special.2010.02.18

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

Another goal for twenty twenty is to have the fastest and most extensive wireless network of any nation.

VOA: special.2010.03.19

And then the inner shrine is the holiest area: it's accessible only to the holiest member of the nation, the high priest.

更内部的神殿是最神圣的区域：,只有这个国家最神圣的人，大祭司可以进入。

耶鲁公开课 - 旧约导论课程节选

They're partners in the preparation of Israel for their new life, readying Israel for life in God's land as a nation, as a people.

他们一起合作为犹太人的新生活做准备，为上帝应许的地方建立一个国家，一个民族做准备。

耶鲁公开课 - 旧约导论课程节选