A COLLECTION OF GOOD WORDS
国家
National
The national pastime is juiced.
这种全国性的娱乐活动是很有趣的。
Bullying is a national epidemic.
欺凌是一种全国性的流行病。
Medicine also disregards national boundaries.
医学也不分国界。
Our national flower is the concrete cloverleaf.
我们的国花是混凝土三叶草。
War is a blessing compared with national degradation.
与国家的衰落相比，战争是一件幸事。
I can hold a note as long as the Chase National Bank.
我可以持有一张和大通银行一样长的钞票。
The Danish glee: the national version of cheerfulness.
丹麦的欢乐:欢乐的国家版本。
The whole of our national sport is not doing very well.
我们整个国家的体育运动做得不是很好。
We must make children and families a national priority.
我们必须把儿童和家庭作为国家的优先事项。
I like traditions, and the national anthem is important.
我喜欢传统，国歌很重要。
Opera is given so little attention in the national press.
歌剧在国内媒体上很少受到关注。
We have now recently launched the national integrity plan.
我们最近启动了国家诚信计划。
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These are national problems that require national solutions.
这些是需要国家解决的全国性问题。
Talk of citizenship today is often thin and tinny. The word has a faintly old-fashioned feel to it when used in everyday conversation. When evoked in national politics, it's usually accompanied by the shrill whine of a descending culture-war mortar.
今天关于公民身份的讨论常常是空洞无物的。这个词在日常会话中有一种略微过时的感觉。当它在国家政治中被唤起时，通常伴随着文化战争迫击炮轰鸣而来。
The right wing has had a radio apparatus for years and years, so they've had minor leagues - they've had local rightwing guys who've become national rightwing guys, and who build slowly, and that's how it goes. We haven't had that. It isn't like we have a farm team.
右翼有无线电设备已经很多年了，所以他们有小联盟，他们有当地的右翼分子，他们变成了全国的右翼分子，他们建设得很慢，事情就是这样。我们还没有。这不像我们有一个农场团队。
These examples of the lack of simplicity in English and French, all appearances to the contrary, could be multiplied almost without limit and apply to all national languages.
英语和法语中缺乏简单性的这些例子，表面上都相反，几乎可以无限地增加，并适用于所有的民族语言。
The more worrying feature of the new global corporate structures is their capacity to devastate national labour markets by transferring their operations to cheaper locations overseas.
新的全球企业结构更令人担忧的特点是，它们有能力将业务转移到海外成本更低的地方，从而摧毁国内劳动力市场。
We must pass a national energy policy to continue our successes in the War on Terrorism.
我们必须通过一项国家能源政策，以继续在反恐战争中取得成功。