Unlike in the heydays of LDP rule in the 1970s and 1980s, when Japan was united in the pursuit of economic growth, the nation today is divided.

上世纪70-80年代自民党主政的全盛时期，日本全国上下都一致追求经济增长，而现在日本各界已经出现分化。

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BRITAIN is a nation divided by its citizens' attitudes to the housing market.

在英国，人们对房市的观点一分为二。

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The origins of civilization should be divided into origins of culture achievements and origins of nation.

文明起源应该区分为文化成就的起源与国家的起源。

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But this is different. It involves the war, the ownership of human beings and the future of the divided nation.

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This did not happen. The Dred Scott decision did not calm the storm that divided the nation.

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In the eighteen nineties, the American people were deeply divided over the nation's money system.

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But whoever wins will have a difficult time governing a divided nation, he said.

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That may prove a sure recipe for a divided nation, whatever happens on May 14th.

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"It wasn't simply a healing of a fragmented, fractured, divided nation filled with enmities and fears and arrogance, " he says.

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