The English nation merely sees the fire and hears the report of the explosion;

而英国人只是在隔岸观火，听取灾情的报导；

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His major work, Ecclesiastical history of the English Nation (731), is still the principal source for English history up to that time.

他的主要作品《英格兰人教会史》(731)仍然是到那时为止的英国历史的主要资料来源。

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The Great Depression and the hardship it caused spawned many classics of American literature that have since become fodder for high school English classes across the nation.

大萧条以及其造成的苦难，催生了许多美国经典文学，这些经典后来成为全国各地高中英语课的教材。

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

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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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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。

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Many mainstream media like the English language newspapers The Nation (English translation unavailable) and The Bangkok Post have journalistic codes of ethics on place, but there still remains a gap between theory and practice that needs to addressed.

UNESCO: Communication and Information

On a scale of one to 10, the education of the nation's English learners is "below five, " said Gary Cook, a specialist with the Wisconsin Center for Education Research.

NPR: Instruction Of Students Learning English Bleak

The innate enthusiasm of the English for vernacular architecture took hold of the nation's mood - all would now be comfortable brick, near the ground with pitched roofs, garden front and rear.

BBC: Viewpoint: Could people learn to love tower blocks?