In the adjustment of may differences that may exist or arise to exhibit the forbearance becoming a powerful nation rather the sensibility belonging to a gallant people.

在调解现存的或可能发生的争端和冲突时，应表现出一个强国所具有的宽容而不能以一个英雄民族所固有的感情用事。

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Projects to divert rivers were sold as demonstrations of what a nation could do, rather than what it should.

让河流改道这样的工程被标榜为国力的展示，而不考虑是否科学。

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The problem, he contends, is that we have become a nation too focused on treating heart disease and stroke rather than preventing them.

问题在于，他声称，美国过于注重心脏病和中风的治疗而忽视了预防。

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But one of them would make war rather than let the nation live.

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They're associated now with events in the life of the new nation rather than being grounded in the cycles of nature.

他们现在同一个国家的新生联系起来,而不再是简单的自然循环。

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"What is required of us now is a new era of responsibility Ca recognition on the part of every American, that we have duties to ourselves, our nation and the world, duties that we do not grudgingly accept but rather seize gladly, firm in the knowledge that there is nothing so satisfying to the spirit, so defining of our character, than giving our all to a difficult task."

VOA: special.2009.01.24

There's a lot at stake certainly and the consequences of failure, you know, for the nation are rather significant.

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President Kiir said his nation would rather struggle for a bit than continue to hand over its oil revenues to the old enemies in Khartoum.

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Other things equal, any nation would rather be in the top ranks of math and science than back in the pack with its young goofing off or not having the means to an education.

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