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。

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How does it differ from having a president as the nation's leader?

这跟有总统统治国家有什么区别？

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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。

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In the controversies that are leading up to the Licensing Act, one of the authors most frequently mentioned as posing a special threat to the well-being of the English nation is our very own Milton.

这些论战导致了《权利法》的出台，最常提到的对英国的繁荣富强有着特殊威胁的,作者之一就是弥尔顿。

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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。

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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。

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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？

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You wrote: I grew up believing that ours was a country that try to stand for good in the world and that upheld the fundamental values that bind us together as a nation.

你写到：,在我的成长过程中，我一直都相信，“,我们的国家,在世界上是一个象征美好的国家,我们主张基本的价值观,这些价值将我们凝结成一个民族。

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And so here in Exodus, we find that just as the nation of Israel is coming into existence, just as the Israelites are making the transition from a nomadic existence to a more settled way of life ultimately in their own land, there seems to be a collective memory of a similar change in her religion.

所以在《出埃及记》中，我们可以看到,以色列作为一个国家即将诞生，就像犹太人,从游牧的生活方式,向更安定生活的转变,就像在宗教中同一个改变中的共同记忆。

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