A COLLECTION OF GOOD WORDS
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。
KEEP EXPLORING
沿着这个主题，再读几句。
Opera is given so little attention in the national press.
歌剧在国内媒体上很少受到关注。
It's not that I'm universally loved. We know I'm not in New Jersey. But what they do say in New Jersey is, 'We like him, and we think he's telling us the truth.' I think we need to have that type of politics on the national level.
并不是所有人都爱我。我们知道我不在新泽西。但在新泽西，人们确实说，‘我们喜欢他，我们认为他在告诉我们真相。他说，我认为我们需要在全国范围内推行这种政治。
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。
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 national pastime is juiced.
这种全国性的娱乐活动是很有趣的。