A COLLECTION OF GOOD WORDS
国家
Nation
In wartime we identify ourselves with the nation, and its interests are the interests of our primal selves.
在战争中，我们认同国家，国家的利益就是我们原始自我的利益。
Any nation that refuses to hold intercourse with other nations must expect to be excluded from this family.
任何拒绝与其他国家交往的国家都将被排除在这个大家庭之外。
Our nation's security, economy, and place on the world stage depends on the success our educational system.
我们国家的安全、经济和在世界舞台上的地位取决于我们教育体系的成功。
In general it can be said that a nation's art is greatest when it most reflects the character of its people.
总的来说，一个民族的艺术最伟大的时候，就是它最能反映其人民的性格。
Property that endangers the safety of a nation should not be suffered to remain in the hands of its citizens.
危害国家安全的财产不应继续掌握在公民手中。
To act coolly, intelligently and prudently in perilous circumstances is the test of a man - and also a nation.
在危险的环境中保持冷静、明智和谨慎是对一个人，也是对一个国家的考验。
Now if there is one thing that we do worse than any other nation, it is try and manage somebody else's affairs.
如果说有一件事我们做得比其他任何国家都糟，那就是试图管理别人的事务。
A nation is formed by the willingness of each of us to share in the responsibility for upholding the common good.
一个国家是由我们每个人都愿意分担维护共同利益的责任而形成的。
After four years at the United Nations I sometimes yearn for the peace and tranquility of a political convention.
在联合国工作四年之后，我有时渴望政治会议的和平与安宁。
He who is the author of a war lets loose the whole contagion of hell and opens a vein that bleeds a nation to death.
作为一场战争的作者，他释放了整个地狱的传染，打开了一根血脉，使一个国家流血至死。
If a nation expects to be ignorant and free, in a state of civilization, it expects what never was and never will be.
如果一个国家期望无知和自由，在文明的状态下，它期望的是过去和将来都不会发生的事情。
The upward course of a nation's history is due in the long run to the soundness of heart of its average men and women.
从长远来看，一个国家历史的进步要归功于其普通男女的健全心灵。
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No nation now sets forth to despoil another upon the avowed ground that it desires the spoils.
现在，没有一个国家在它所宣称的觊觎战利品的土地上掠夺另一个国家。
Territory is but the body of a nation. The people who inhabit its hills and valleys are its soul, its spirit, its life.
领土只是一个国家的主体。住在山上和山谷里的人是它的灵魂，它的精神，它的生命。
It often seemed like we had become a nation where the only heroes were rock singers and ball players and that there were no large men of probity who could be called upon for the task.
似乎我们的国家已经变成了一个只有摇滚歌手和棒球运动员为英雄的国家，没有一个正直的大个子可以被召唤来完成这项任务。
After a lifetime of working, raising families, and contributing to the success of this nation in countless other ways, senior citizens deserve to retire with dignity.
经过一生的工作、养家糊口，以及在无数其他方面为这个国家的成功做出贡献，老年人应该有尊严地退休。
As a matter of fact, even when I finished law school, I had no notion of public service then.
事实上，甚至当我从法学院毕业的时候，我对公共服务还一无所知。