A COLLECTION OF GOOD WORDS
国家
Country
Adieu, adieu! my native shore Fades o’er the waters blue.
再见,再见!我的故乡在蔚蓝的海面上渐渐消失。
I'm always trying to be a good ambassador for my country.
我一直想成为我国家的好大使。
Whoever serves his country well has no need of ancestors.
谁为国家服务好，谁就不需要祖先。
These are our borders, and we have to secure our borders.
这些是我们的边界，我们必须保卫我们的边界。
For years now there had been no country here but the war.
多年来这里除了战争没有别的国家。
I really don't feel any strong allegiance to any country.
我对任何国家都没有强烈的忠诚。
Liberty and Union, now and for ever, one and inseparable!
自由和联合，现在和永远，是不可分割的!
I'm not right wing, I'm not left wing. I love my country.
我不是右翼，也不是左翼。我爱我的国家。
A house in the country is not the same as a country house.
乡下的房子和乡下的房子不一样。
Your mom can't hate a whole country because of one person!
你妈妈不能因为一个人就恨整个国家!
We are a model country where gender equality is concerned.
我们是一个关注性别平等的模范国家。
Our country is the world - our countrymen are all mankind.
我们的国家是世界——我们的同胞是全人类。
KEEP EXPLORING
沿着这个主题，再读几句。
In my last I contended that none of those ties which are necessary to bind a people together and make them one, existed between the colonists and Mexicans.
在我的上一篇文章中，我主张殖民者和墨西哥人之间不存在任何必要的纽带，而这些纽带是把一个民族团结在一起并使他们成为一个整体所必需的。
When you look at a city, it's like reading the hopes, aspirations and pride of everyone who built it.
当你看到一座城市的时候，就像读到每一个建造它的人的希望、抱负和自豪。
Once you're in a particular country, and you're surrounded by musicians who are so adept at traditional music, you suddenly realize how much there is to explore and digest and learn and experience.
一旦你到了一个特定的国家，周围都是非常擅长传统音乐的音乐家，你就会突然意识到有多少东西需要去探索、消化、学习和体验。
There is a certain inescapable attachment. If you are born somewhere and circumstances don't take you away from it, then you grow up and remain within it.
有一种无法逃避的依恋。如果你出生在某个地方，而环境并没有把你带离它，那么你就会在其中成长并停留。
To meet an old friend in a distant country is like the delight of rain after a long drought.
在一个遥远的国家遇见一位老朋友，就像久旱逢甘霖一样。