A COLLECTION OF GOOD WORDS
名义上
Nominal
Hard to find anything lovelier than a tree. They grow at right angles to a tangent of the nominal sphere of the Earth.
很难找到比树更可爱的东西了。它们与地球公称球面成直角相切。
Sovereignty is a word that is used often but it has really no specific meaning. Sovereignty today is nominal. Any number of countries that are sovereign are sovereign only nominally and relatively.
主权是一个经常使用的词，但它实际上没有特定的含义。今天的主权只是名义上的。任何主权国家都只是名义上和相对上的主权。