That is what makes the United States of America different as a nation.

这是美国作为一个国家独树一帜的原因。

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Once a nation of farmers, the United States has become increasingly urban since the turn of the last century.

美国一度曾是农场主的国家，自进入上世纪以来日益城市化。

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The United States, a nation of 300 million, won nine gold MEDALS this year in the Winter Olympics. Norway, a nation of 4.7 million, also won nine.

美国，一个拥有3亿人口的国家，在今年的冬奥会上获得了9枚金牌，而挪威，一个只有470万人口的国家，也赢得了9枚金牌。

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

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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

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The United States is a nation of failing businesses, closed factories and angry citizens.

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As mentioned, we were once a nation of states and cities that working together made a composite national economy.

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However, as Mr Darwin notes, what seems inevitable to us now the dissolution of empire in a modern world of nation states did not necessarily appear so at the time or, at least, not immediately.

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In its place, the treaty created a Europe of nation-states, which survived for the next three centuries.

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