民族国家似乎是自由的最佳孵化器，虽然他非常清楚其狭隘和排外的局限。
The nation-state, though he was well aware of its parochial and xenophobic limitations, seemed to be liberty's best incubator.
希尔和斯派塞认为，“民族国家”一词模糊了国家内部文化和语言的多样性，更确切地说，这些国家可以被称为“征服国家”。
The term "nation-state", Hill and Spicer argue, blurs the internal cultural and linguistic multiplicity of states that could more precisely be called "conquest states".
费城坦普尔大学一位法律学教授，戴维波斯特说：“它是一个允许人们聚在一起，自己掌握自己的命运的设备，很像我们的民族国家。”
“[It] is a device that allows people to get together and control their own destiny, much like our nation-state, ” says David Post, a law professor at Temple University, Philadelphia.
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.
如果这些利益获得世界性的承认，我们就需要立刻而且永远摆脱民族国家的神话。
If these interests are to gain universal recognition, we will need to shed the nation-state myth once and for all.
民族国家似乎是自由的最佳孵化器，虽然他非常清楚它的狭隘和排外的局限。
And the nation state, though he was well aware of its parochial and xenophobic limitations, seemed to be liberty's best incubator.
“俄罗斯可能已经有民族国家的迹象，但是在这个过程中它同样也可能会变的丑陋、民族主义化”。
“Russia may yet emerge as a nation state, but in the process it could also turn ugly and nationalistic, ” he says.
民族国家概念的起源是不清楚的。
两个多世纪后，他关于民族国家的观点被奉为圭臬。但是这是为什么呢？
Over the last two centuries, his vision of the nation-state has become the norm. But why?
在历史长河中它更象一个永恒的自然现象而不是一个传统的民族国家。
It appears in history less as a conventional nation-state than as a permanent natural phenomenon.
换言之，中国不像世界上的西方国家和多数国家，它由它自身文明所形成，它是作为一个文明国家而不是一个民族国家而存在的。
In other words, China, unlike the Western states and most countries in the world, is shaped by its sense of civilization, its existence as a civilization state, rather than as a nation state.
这非常重要：以色列建国前30年——从1948到1956，从1956到1967及从1967到1973年——以色列通过正规战争打败民族国家的正规军获得战争暂歇期。
This is important: For its first 30 years - from 1948 to 1956, from 1956 to 1967 and from 1967 to 1973 - Israel bought its timeouts with conventional wars against conventional armies of nation states.
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.
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.
在民族国家不是弱小就是难以存活的社会中，海盗并不罕见。
Piracy is not that uncommon in societies where the national state is either weak or non-existent.
这导致韩国社会关系紧张，因为韩国迄今仍属于单一民族国家，容不得异族婚姻出生的孩子。
This is causing tensions in a hitherto homogenous society, which is often hostile to the children of mixed marriages.
历史上虽有疏远，但两个民族国家在过去十年的关系回暖。
Historically estranged, the two secular democracies have enjoyed warming relations in the past decade.
当全球金融和公司企业受到威胁，是善良的、过气的民族国家一次又一次地伸出援助之手。
Again and again, when "global" financial and corporate enterprises have been threatened, good, old-fashioned nation-states have come to the rescue.
从亚马逊的丛林到里约日内卢和累西腓的贫民窟，足球将这个广阔多民族国家各阶层的人凝聚在了一起。
From the jungles of the Amazon to the slums of cities like Rio de Janeiro and Recife, soccer is a constant that unites Brazilians from all walks of life.
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.
20世纪90年代，某些专家如日本的大前研一曾预言，民族国家会被类似欧盟的超国家区域系统所取代。
In the 1990s, gurus like Japan's Kenichi Ohmae predicted that the nation-state would be replaced by supranational regional systems like the European Union.
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.
承认以色列作为犹太民族国家的诉求是内塔尼亚胡本人多年的宿愿。
The demand for recognition of Israel as the Jewish nation-state is Mr Netanyahu's own long-time hobby-horse.
承认以色列作为犹太民族国家的诉求是内塔尼亚胡本人多年的宿愿。
The demand for recognition of Israel as the Jewish nation-state is Mr Netanyahu's own long-time hobby-horse.
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