The news plunged the nation into a febrile, agitated state.

这项消息使国家陷入一种狂躁的状态。

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During this time, he saw the American colonies grow from tiny settlements into a nation and he also contributed much to the new state.

在这段时间里，他见证了美国殖民地从一个小殖民地发展成为一个国家，而他也为这个新国家做出了很大的贡献。

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The nation-state, though he was well aware of its parochial and xenophobic limitations, seemed to be liberty's best incubator.

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。

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That is because it became a state in eighteen seventy-six, exactly one hundred years after the nation declared its independence.

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And so things like affirmative action, things such as how should university treat its workers, how should university treat its surrounding community, state, the nation.

比如反歧视性政策，比如工人们在大学的待遇，比如大学如何处理它和,周边社区，洲和国家的关系。

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He seems to have had some work as the state licenser, but also more importantly as the nation's Latin secretary, which means that he would compose and translate all of England's correspondence with the governments on the continent into and from Latin.

他作为国家执照签发人似乎真做了一些工作，但更重要的是,弥尔顿还担任了国家拉丁语文书，也就是说他要,把英格兰大陆上政府的所有通信,编译成拉丁文或者从拉丁文编译成英语。

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Europe's nations are at loggerheads, Germany is in a state of outrage, and the link between the euro and the nation state is more fraught than ever.

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It is my opinion that the White House cannot be solely responsible for the state of the nation.

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The couple were joined in a civil union in Vermont in 2000, shortly after the state passed the nation's first civil-union law.

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