A COLLECTION OF GOOD WORDS
国家
National
Our country's national crime is lynching. It is not the creature of an hour, the sudden outburst of uncontrolled fury, or the unspeakable brutality of an insane mob.
我国的国家犯罪是私刑。它不是一个小时的产物，不是突然爆发的无法控制的愤怒，也不是一个疯狂的暴民说不出的暴行。
In the same vein as these events, National Minority Health Month also serves as a reminder of how much work needs to be done to eliminate health and healthcare inequities.
与这些活动一样，少数民族卫生月也提醒人们，在消除卫生和卫生保健不平等方面需要做多少工作。
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。
It's great to be wanted in this recruiting class. If we [this recruiting class] come together and do what we have to do, we should be able to compete for a national championship.
能成为这个招聘班的一员真是太好了。如果我们(这个招聘班)团结起来，做我们必须做的事情，我们应该能够竞争全国冠军。
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。
Most importantly, nothing has happened to change my conviction that freedom and the love of liberty remain the essential defining attributes of our national character as a people.
最重要的是，没有任何事情改变我的信念，即自由和对自由的热爱仍然是我们民族性格的基本特征。
The National Flood Insurance Program is a voluntary program. If a community really feels that the building insurance requirements are too burdensome, they don't have to participate.
国家洪水保险计划是一个自愿的计划。如果一个社区真的觉得建筑保险要求太过繁重，他们不必参与。
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。
Especially being selected as a national merit scholar, I'm just fantastically proud of her, ... But it's just real tough knowing that that her mom couldn't be there. That's real hard.
特别是被选为国家优秀奖学金获得者，我为她感到无比的骄傲。但知道她妈妈不能来真的很难过。这是真正的困难。
It is true, indeed, that the national domain is ours. It is true it was acquired by the valor and with the wealth of the whole nation. But we hold, nevertheless, no arbitrary power over it.
的确，国家的领土是我们的。的确，它是靠全国人民的英勇和财富获得的。但是，我们对它没有任何专断的权力。
As a matter of fact, a national language which spreads beyond its own confines very quickly loses much of its original richness of content and is in no better case than a constructed language.
事实上，一种超越其自身范围的民族语言，很快就会失去其原有的丰富内容，其效果并不比一种建构的语言好。
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。
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Beer is the Danish national drink, and the Danish national weakness is another beer.
啤酒是丹麦的民族饮品，而丹麦的民族弱点是另一种啤酒。
These are national problems that require national solutions.
这些是需要国家解决的全国性问题。
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。
Over the course of two years, we arrived at a point where we began to look at the value added by making information more easily accessible across the intelligence community, both defense and national.
在两年的时间里，我们达到了一个起点，我们开始关注通过使国防和国家情报机构更容易获得信息而带来的附加值。
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。