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国家
National
I also never went there when I was little because I was too busy working and traveling on national tours.
我小的时候也从来没有去过那里，因为我太忙于工作和国家旅游。
By keeping the annuities, we could build up a national industry every years as big as the Shannon Scheme.
通过保留年金，我们可以每年建立一个像香农计划一样庞大的全国性产业。
I never achieved my first goal in the National Actors Theatre, which is to have a permanent Acting Company.
我从未在国家演员剧院实现过我的第一个目标，那就是拥有一个永久的表演公司。
The scenic ideals that surround even our national parks are carriers of a nostalgia for heavenly bliss and eternal calmness.
甚至环绕在我们国家公园周围的风景理想，都承载着对天堂般的幸福和永恒的宁静的怀念。
Designs in connection with postage stamps and coinage may be described, I think, as the silent ambassadors on national taste.
我认为，与邮票和硬币有关的设计可以被描述为“品味上的沉默大使”。
The principle of spending money to be paid by posterity, under the name of funding, is but swindling futurity on a large scale.
以资助的名义把钱花在子孙后代身上的原则，不过是在大规模地欺骗未来。
I don't know how this company got the name National Shakespeare Company, because it was literally like retards employing retards.
我不知道这家公司是怎么被命名为国家莎士比亚公司的，因为它就像一个傻瓜雇佣了一个傻瓜。
Relinquishing apparent national sovereignty does not have to entail a loss of national sovereignty, but can actually be a benefit.
放弃表面上的国家主权不一定会导致国家主权的丧失，但实际上可以是一种利益。
Television was supposed to be a national park. Instead it has become a money machine. It's a commodity now, just like pork bellies.
电视应该是一个国家公园。相反，它变成了一台赚钱机器。现在它是一种商品，就像猪肉肚一样。
Baseball hasn't been the national pastime for many years now - no sport is. The national pastime, like it or not, is watching television.
棒球多年来都不是全国性的消遣活动——没有一项运动是。不管你喜不喜欢，看电视是全国人民的消遣。
That's the reason support for the National Endowment of the Arts is so important. It enables those ventures that aren't viable commercially to be done.
这就是支持国家艺术捐赠基金如此重要的原因。它使那些在商业上不可行的投资成为可能。
You will be pleased to know I stand obediently for the national anthem, though of course I would defend your right to remain seated should you so decide.
你会高兴地知道，在奏国歌时，我是顺从地站着的，尽管如果你这样决定，我当然会捍卫你继续坐着的权利。
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Because they want more advertisements, they are destroying what is a very important part of the society - news reporting. It is wasting important national space that should be used in a more productive manner.
因为他们想要更多的广告，他们正在破坏社会的一个非常重要的部分——新闻报道。它正在浪费应该以更有效的方式使用的重要的国家空间。
What I loathe is the multi-national conglomerates who must take responsibility for the degradation and pollution of so much of our landscape with their factory farming and greed.
我所憎恶的是那些跨国企业集团，它们必须为我们如此多的土地退化和污染承担责任，原因是它们的工厂化养殖和贪婪。
The nation demands a movement which has written upon its banner the internal and external national freedom that it will act as if it were the spiritual, social and political conscience of the nation.
这个国家要求一场在其旗帜上写有对内和对外的民族自由的运动，使它的行动象是这个国家的精神、社会和政治良知一样。
Our national flower is the concrete cloverleaf.
我们的国花是混凝土三叶草。
The National Flood Insurance Program is a valuable tool in addressing the losses incurred throughout this country due to floods. It assures that businesses and families have access to affordable flood insurance that would not be available on the open market.
全国洪水保险计划是一个宝贵的工具，以解决全国各地由于洪水造成的损失。它确保企业和家庭能够获得在公开市场上无法获得的负担得起的洪水保险。