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 nation ['neiʃәn]   添加此单词到默认生词本
n. 国家, 民族

[法] 民族, 国家




    nation
    [ noun ]
    1. a politically organized body of people under a single government

      2. <noun.group>
      the state has elected a new president
      African nations
      students who had come to the nation's capitol
      the country's largest manufacturer
      an industrialized land
    2. the people who live in a nation or country

      3. <noun.group>
      a statement that sums up the nation's mood
      the news was announced to the nation
      the whole country worshipped him
    3. United States prohibitionist who raided saloons and destroyed bottles of liquor with a hatchet (1846-1911)

      4. <noun.person>
    4. a federation of tribes (especially Native American tribes)

      5. <noun.group>
      the Shawnee nation


    Nation \Na"tion\, n. [F. nation, L. natio nation, race, orig., a
    being born, fr. natus, p. p. of nasci, to be born, for
    gnatus, gnasci, from the same root as E. kin. [root]44. See
    {Kin} kindred, and cf. {Cognate}, {Natal}, {Native}.]
    1. (Ethnol.) A part, or division, of the people of the earth,
    distinguished from the rest by common descent, language,
    or institutions; a race; a stock.

    All nations, and kindreds, and people, and tongues.
    --Rev. vii. 9.

    2. The body of inhabitants of a country, united under an
    independent government of their own.

    A nation is the unity of a people. --Coleridge.

    Praise the power that hath made and preserved us a
    nation. --F. S. Key.

    3. Family; lineage. [Obs.] --Chaucer.

    4.
    (a) One of the divisions of university students in a
    classification according to nativity, formerly common
    in Europe.
    (b) (Scotch Universities) One of the four divisions (named
    from the parts of Scotland) in which students were
    classified according to their nativity.

    5. A great number; a great deal; -- by way of emphasis; as, a
    nation of herbs. --Sterne.

    {Five nations}. See under {Five}.

    {Law of nations}. See {International law}, under
    {International}, and {Law}.

    Syn: people; race. See {People}.

    1. Lawmakers say the aim is to increase voter turnout and open the nation's elections to Americans unable to leave work and stand in line at City Hall or merely too forgetful to register 30 days in advance as required in some states.
    2. People over 65 make up 12 percent of the nation's population, but use 30 percent of health care services, Vagelos said.
    3. Wold calls itself the nation's biggest distributor of syndicated television programming to independent TV stations and transmits news for Japanese companies.
    4. The nation's high on Monday was 88 degrees at El Cajon, Calif.
    5. General Motors Corp. will cut about 3,200 production jobs at three plants in February and March because of slow auto sales, the nation's biggest automaker said in another indication of the industry's severe slump.
    6. The Fed's latest actions involve requests from Citicorp, the nation's largest banking concern; Chase Manhattan Corp. and Bankers Trust New York Corp.
    7. A successful override later this year in the Democratic-controlled Assembly would clear the way for the electric chair to be put back into use in the nation's second largest state. California already has the death penalty.
    8. The District of Columbia has the nation's second highest per capita income after the state of Connecticut: $20,303 annually, which is 32.3 percent higher than the national average.
    9. The nation's church leaders met 30 years ago in an attempt to forge a united front to challenge apartheid, but the agreement collapsed when the Dutch Reformed Church rejected it.
    10. Stuart, who was shot in the stomach, provided a description of an assailant, and the crime riveted the nation as a chilling example of urban violence.
    11. "I cannot meet with the leader of an invading nation," Garcia said Thursday.
    12. Lokmaya's village of Balambhu has better health care than most in this nation of 17 million people.
    13. If successful, the acquisition by Salt Lake City-based American Stores would create the nation's largest supermarket chain.
    14. The merger of USAir Group Inc. and Piedmont Aviation Inc. is expected to create a profitable new carrier that analysts say would be a strong challenger to the nation's so-called mega-carriers.
    15. He told the Lithuanian party chief during the weekend that the independence movement in that former nation had gone too far.
    16. The battle for control of the nation's largest Protestant denomination enters its 11th year Tuesday, with moderates making an "11th hour" bid for the presidency of the Southern Baptist Convention.
    17. The nation's largest oil company fired the tanker's skipper after saying tests showed he was legally drunk but faced a torrent of criticism for its slow reaction to the worst oil spill in U.S. history.
    18. At the end of August, the nation's foreign debt outstanding totaled $38.8 billion, down $5.7 billion from the end of 1986, according to the ministry.
    19. The weather across much of the nation was expected to be colder than normal through the weekend, with the chill air pushing into Texas, the Gulf Coast and Florida.
    20. Bombs rocked two ministries and the buildings housing the nation's industrialist and labor unions early Tuesday in downtown Athens, police said.
    21. The nation's total foreign debt of $121 billion is the largest in the developing world.
    22. Tass, in its announcement Monday, gave no details of the Communist Party chief's schedule, and said only that the visit would take place in "mid-March." Leonid Brezhnev was the last Kremlin leader to go to the non-aligned Communist nation.
    23. As many as a half-million people were expected to celebrate Independence Day in the nation's capital today with a full day of activities, beginning with a parade and ending with fireworks.
    24. The nation's past presidents may need more advertising, judging from a survey that found youngsters able to name more brands of alcoholic beverages than former chief executives.
    25. He engineered a huge defense buildup and ended the nation's post-Vietnam paralysis by projecting military power in Grenada, Libya and the Persian Gulf.
    26. "We'd like Congress to take up the nation's energy policy now, before the ghost of the Valdez is gone," he said. "Because as long as that ghost is there, there's not going to be drilling up there.
    27. A 150-member regional force was dispatched to this island nation of more than 1.2 million to guard installations and relieve the local forces for patrols.
    28. The handsome, articulate Bundy, a one-time law student who became the nation's best-known serial killer, for years had cockily maintained his innocence in the string of killings for which he was a suspect.
    29. One of the many companies controlled by Jaffe has sought to share in an Air Force program, under study by Congress, for developing the nation's next jet pilot training aircraft, according to numerous news accounts last week.
    30. That nation is past." Mr. Pavlychko and some other Ukrainian officials are skeptical about the recently signed economic agreement, which they say isn't workable.
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