首页英语词典countrycountry的意思

country

英 ['kʌntrɪ] 美['kʌntri]

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近义词nation land territory region

反义词

n. 国家，国土；国民；乡下，农村；乡村；故乡
adj. 祖国的，故乡的；地方的，乡村的；国家的；粗鲁的；乡村音乐的

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中文词源

country 国家，乡村

来自counter-, 相对，原指相对于他国而言的本国土地，即国家。后相对于城市而言的土地，即乡村。

英英释意

1. the territory occupied by a nation;: "he returned to the land of his birth"; "he visited several European countries"

2. a politically organized body of people under a single government;: "the state has elected a new president"; "African nations"; "students who had come to the nation's capitol"; "the country's largest manufacturer"; "an industrialized land"

3. the people who live in a nation or country;: "a statement that sums up the nation's mood"; "the news was announced to the nation"; "the whole country worshipped him"

4. an area outside of cities and towns;: "his poetry celebrated the slower pace of life in the country"

5. a particular geographical region of indefinite boundary (usually serving some special purpose or distinguished by its people or culture or geography);: "it was a mountainous area"; "Bible country"

英文词源

country: country: [13] Etymologically, the meaning of country is virtually ‘surroundings’. It originated in medieval Latin contrātus ‘lying on the opposite side’, an adjective formed from the proposition contrā ‘against, opposite’. This was used in the phrase terra contrāta ‘land opposite or before one, spread out around one’, and soon broke free to act as a noun in its own right.

In Old French it became cuntree, the form in which it was borrowed into English. Its original notion of ‘area of land’ had quickly become narrowed down to ‘district controlled or occupied by a particular people’, hence ‘nation’, but its use for ‘rural areas as opposed to cities’ does not seem to have developed until the 16th century. The compound countryside originated in Scotland and northern England, probably in the 17th century.
country (n.): mid-13c., "district, native land," from Old French contree, from Vulgar Latin *(terra) contrata "(land) lying opposite," or "(land) spread before one," from Latin contra "opposite, against" (see contra-). Sense narrowed 1520s to rural areas, as opposed to cities. Replaced Old English land. As an adjective from late 14c. First record of country-and-western music style is from 1942. Country club first recorded 1886. Country mile "a long way" is from 1915, American English.

同义词辨析

nation, state, country, land, power

这些名词均含"国家"之意。

nation：普通用词，指在某一国土定居的人民、民族，强调人民。

state：正式用词，指政治概念上的国家，即由政府所代表的国家。

country：普通用词，侧重国土与人民。

land：常用于文学中，侧重国土，带感情色彩。

power：特指拥有强大军事力量，在国际事务中有较强权威或影响的国家，即强国、大国。

考试真题

The report says America's urbanization will continue to be the most significant issue affecting the industry, as cities across the country imitate the walkability and transit-oriented development making cities like New York and San Francisco so successful.

The millennials ( ' , 千禧一代) who will soon make up half the workforce in rich countries were raised from nursery school onwards to work in groups.

The continuing economic recession in the country.

Imagine being able to remember every painting, on every wall, in every gallery space, between nearly 40 countries, he says.

But a new report by Deloitte, Global Human Capital Trends, based on a survey of more than 7,000 executives in over 130 countries, suggests that the fashion for teamwork has reached a new high.

A new study of 12,000 workers in 17 countries by Steelcase, a furniture-maker which also does consulting, finds that the best way to ensure employees are engaged is to give them more control over where and how they do their work—which may mean liberating them from having to do everything in collaboration with others.

Today, cooler countries grow most of the world’s carrots.

Hi, Susan! You’re looking very smart today! There is new data out today that confirms that many Americans are not good at math, and when it comes to everyday technology skills, we are dead last when compare to other developed countries.

To lower domestic food prices, some countries limited or stopped their grain exports.

The trend began in 2007, when leading wheat-exporting countries such as Russia and Argentina limited or banned their exports, in hopes of increasing local food supplies and thereby bringing down domestic food prices.

The result is falling water tables ( ' , 地下水位) in countries with half the world's people, including the three big grain producers—China, India and the U.S.

Such moves may eliminate the fears of those living in the exporting countries, but they are creating panic in importing countries that must rely on what is then left for export.

Social order is breaking down in many countries because of food shortages.

Rather than superpower conflict, countries unable to cope with food shortages now constitute the main threat to world security.

Millions of irrigation wells in many countries are now pumping water out of underground sources faster than rainfall can refill them.

In spite of such temporary measures, soaring food prices and spreading hunger in many other countries are beginning to break down the social order.

In response to those restrictions, grain-importing countries are trying to nail down long-term trade agreements that would lock up future grain supplies.

Food-import anxiety is even leading to new efforts by food-importing countries to buy or lease farmland in other countries.

As the world's food security falls to pieces, individual countries acting in their own self-interest are actually worsening the troubles of many.

As demand for food rises faster than supplies are growing, the resulting food-price inflation puts severe stress on the governments of many countries.

After a point, countries can become so dangerous that food relief workers are no longer safe and their programs are halted.

The Director General of the International Labour Organization Juan Somavia notes that some countries have taken measures to address the effects of the global crisis.

However, he points out that many countries have not done so.

And following up on what you just mentioned, what would you recommend for students who do not live in an English-speaking country? And you know, they want to learn.

Two and a half centuries on, most countries impose some sort of tax on alcohol and tobacco.

The biggest gains go to countries that import most of their oil like China, Japan, and India.

One reason is that more countries are big oil producers now, so the nations suffering from the price drop account for a larger share of the global economy.

But doesn't the extra money in the pockets of those countries' consumers mean an equal loss in oil-producing countries, cancelling out the gains? Not necessarily, says economic researcher Sara Johnson.

And a number of oil-producing countries are trimming their gasoline subsidies and raising taxes, so the net savings for global consumers is not as big as the oil price plunge might suggest.

The Scottish Environment Protection Agency has issued more than 35 flood warnings covering several regions, as Scotland continues to clean up after Storm Frankhit the country last Wednesday.

Did you know that besides larger places like France and Germany, Europe is home to several extremely tiny countries? One of these countries contains less than a square mile of land.

Russians, for example, began to wake up about a half-hour later each day after President Vladimir Putin shifted the country permanently to winter time starting on October 26.

Could you reproduce Silicon Valley elsewhere, or is there something unique about it?It wouldn't be surprising if it were hard to reproduce in other countries, because you couldn't reproduce it in most of the US either.

But actually, the country is closer to his proposal than you might think.

Brits stayed up a half-hour later to watch it, and then they woke up earlier than usual the next morning thanks to summer nights, the phenomenon in which the sun barely sets in northern countries in the summertime.

If I had the time and money, Iwould live for a year in as many countries as possible.

"I think we're unique as a federal agency," USPS official Mike Swigart told me, "because we're in literally every community in this country."

Across the country, 285 emergencymanagement teams are devoted to crisis control.

After Hurricane Katrina hit in 2005, mail facilities were set up in dozens of locations across the country in the two weeks that USPS was unable to provide street delivery.

Along with this effort, we're working with animal advocates and state and federal lawmakers to strengthen anti-cruelty laws across the country, as well as supporting laws and policies that assist overburdened animal shelters that care for animal fighting

Everybody says, "Oh, I'd love to retire and get a country pub."

France isn't the first country to kick around the idea of paving its roads with solar panels.

If you can speak the language, it's easier to get to know the country and its people.

In a bid to take production back to Detroit, michigan lawmakers have introduced legislation that could make their state the best place in the country, if not the world, to develop self-driving vehicles and put them on the road.

Interstate highways connect just about every large and mid-sized city in the country.

Italy boasts more UNESCO World Heritage sites than any other country in the world, granting it considerable power and influence within the organization.

Last week, France announced that the country will pave 621 miles of road with solar panels over the next five years, with the goal of providing cheap, renewable energy to five million people.

Late November and December saw early snow and bone-chilling temperatures in much of the country, part of a year when, for the first time in two decades, record-cold days will likely turn out to have outnumbered record-warm ones.

liechtenstein uses the same money as its neighbor Switzerland, but it has been an independent country since the 1860s.

One online post said that the raccoon has succeeded in uniting the country the way no politician could.

People are different in other parts of the country.

Quick and easy travel between all parts of the country was now possible.

Russians, for example, began to wake up about a half-hour later each day after President Vladimir Putin shifted the country permanently to" winter time" starting on October 26.

So-called roads of national importance were designated, but they were mostly small country roads.

The country makes and exports a lot of machinery.

The report says America's urbanization will continue to be the most significant issue affecting the industry, as cities across the country imitate the walk ability and transit oriented development making cities like New York and San Francisco so successfu

The Scottish Environment Protection Agency has issued more than 35 flood warnings covering several regions, as Scotland continues to clean up after Storm Frank hit the country last Wednesday.

Then, I left my native country of New Zealand to start my career as an English teacher, which eventually brought my dancing life to a halt.

They celebrate the cultural heritage of the country and will be available to view until Sunday.

This country is located in the Pyrenees Mountains with France on one side and Spain on the other.

Tourism throughout' Turkey is expected to fall this year as the country has been the victim of several deadly terrorist attacks.

within the Alps in central Europe is Liechtenstein, a tiny country of about 30, 000 people who speak mostly German.

We need very broad participation to fully address the global tragedy that results when countries fail to take into account the negative impact of their carbon emissions on the rest of the world.

The International Monetary Fund calculates that countries can generate substantial fiscal revenues by eliminating fossil fuel subsidies and levying carbon charges that capture the domestic damage caused by emissions.

The British traveler Charles Thompson spoke for many Grand Tourists when in 1744 he described himself as being impatiently desirous of viewing a country so famous in history, a country which once gave laws to the world, and which is at present the greatest school of music and painting, contains the noblest productions of sculpture and architecture, and is filled with cabinets of rarities, and collections of all kinds of historical relics.

Moreover, nonparticipation by nations, if sufficiently widespread, can undermine the political will of participating countries to act.

In order to maximize global welfare, every country's carbon pricing should reflect not only the purely domestic damage from emissions, but also the damage to foreign countries.

In fact, in line with past experience, capital expenditure in the oil sector has dropped sharply in many producing countries, including the United States.

In addition, other factors are putting downward pressure on oil prices: change in the strategic behavior of the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries, the projected increase in Iranian exports, the scaling-down of global demand ( ' , especially from emerging markets), the long-term drop in petroleum consumption in the United States, and some displacement of oil by substitutes.

In England, where architecture was increasingly seen as an aristocratic pursuit, noblemen often applied what they learned from the villas of Palladio in the Veneto and the evocative ( ' , 唤起回忆的) ruins of Rome to their own country houses and gardens.

Even major fossil fuel exporting countries have great potential to develop renewable energies.

Economic reasoning shows that the least expensive way for each country is to put a price on carbon emissions.

Aristocrats' country houses all had Roman-style gardens.

About 100,000 students around the country participate in the program's competition series, which culminates in a national game-show-style contest held each May.

A tax on upstream carbon sources is one easy way to put a price on carbon emissions, although some countries may wish to use other methods, such as emissions trading schemes.

You will hear more and more about migration between countries and between rural areas and cities.

Sweden was the first European country to print and use paper money, but it may soon do away with physical currencies.

Mr.Ishiguro, have you ever found one of your books at a secondhand bookstore? According to a study of race and equity in education, black athletes are dropping out of college across the country at alarming rates.

Those dangers can be addressed with farmer and consumer education, he said, while the free water and nutrients from human waste can help urban farmers in developing countries to escape poverty.

So it is saying that economic development should make for a cleaner world? Not necessarily; In the industrialised countries, environmental problems are generally related to industrialisation and technological development, it continues.

Poor countries will have to bear the cost for rich nations' economic development.

Perhaps there is less to fight about, with the country in a period of tranquility and the dangers of drug abuse and other unwholesome behavior well known.

Medical spending, which typically rises faster than wages and the overall economy, is propelled by two things: the high prices charged for medical services in this country and the volume of unnecessary care delivered by doctors and hospitals, which often perform a lot more tests and treatments than a patient really needs.

It does in other countries.

In the developing countries, it says, most of the environmental problems are caused by underdevelopment.

In America the kitchen market is now worth $170 billion, five times the country's film industry.

Facing water shortages and escalating fertilizer costs, farmers in developing countries are using raw sewage ( ' , 下水道污水) to irrigate and fertilize nearly 49 million acres of cropland, according to a new report—and it may not be a bad thing.

Examples show that both rich and poor countries exploited the environment for economic progress.

But there is also a place in a young life for noble purposes that include a dedication to the broader society, a love of country and an aspiration to make their own leadership contributions.

But missing from all these data is the sense that today's young care very much about their country, about the broader civic and political environment, or about the future of their society.

As countries become richer, they produce more greenhouse gases; and the impact of those gases will fall primarily in poor parts of the world.

As a country's wealth grows, so do its greenhouse gas emissions.

And that’s not really the way they’re used in this country.

it is unfair to those climate-vulnerable nationsit aims to keep temperature rise below 2 ℃ onlyit is beneficial to only fewer than 4% of countriesit burdens developed countries with the sole responsibilityThey needn't worry about the food and water they consume.

With competition from many countries, Antarctica is no longer dominated by the traditional white nations.

There must urgently be a meaningful mobilisation of the policies outlined in the agreement if we are to achieve national emissions reductions while helping the most vulnerable countries adapt to climate change.

The research stations on King George lsland offer a glimpse into the long game on this ice-blanketed continent as nations assert themselves, eroding the sway long held by countries like the United States, Britain, Australia and New Zealand.

The most climate-vulnerable countries in the world have contributed very little to creating the global disease from which they now suffer the most.

The goal of keeping global temperature rise well below 2 ℃ is commendable but the emissions-reduction pledges submitted by countries leading up to the Paris talks are very unlikely to deliver on this.

The U.S. is also the only advanced economy that does not guarantee workers paid vacation time, and it's one of only two countries in the world that does not offer guaranteed paid maternity leave.

Some countries have had a hard time here.

Securing these funds, and establishing who is responsible for raising them will also be vital for the future of climate-vulnerable countries.

Many of the world's most climate-vulnerable countries, the majority of which are African or small island states, produce a very small quantity of emissions.

Many countries are racing against each other to increase their business and strategic influence on Antarctica.

In other words, a few countries are benefiting enormously from the consumption of fossil fuels, while at the same time contributing disproportionately to the global burden of climate change.

Fewer than 4% of countries are responsible for more than half of the world's greenhouse gas emissions.

Developed nations such as Australia, the United States, Canada, and European countries are essentially climate free-riders: causing the majority of the problems through high greenhouse gas emissions, while incurring few of the costs such as climate change's impact on food and water.

Consumers are becoming increasingly bored with what companies have to offer: A survey of 28,000 consumers in 28 countries released by Accenture found consumers are not as excited about technology as they once were.

But an array of countries are rushing to assert greater influence here, with an eye not just towards the day those protective treaties expire, but also for the strategic and commercial opportunities that already exist.

As some countries expand operations in Antarctica, the United States maintains three year-round stations on the continent with more than 1,000 people during the southern hemisphere's summer, including those at the Amundsen-Scott station, built in 1956 at an elevation of 9,301 feet on a plateau at the South Pole.

There are more than 600,000 professional social workers in the country, and we all either have a bachelor’s degree, a master’s degree or a Ph D in social work.

The National Association of Social Workers represents nearly 145,000 social workers across the country.

In thousands of ways, social workers help other people—people from every age, every background across the country.

For all their troubles, the United States’ 3,500 institutions were flooded with more than half a million students from 193 countries last year.

About 100,000 students around the country participate in the program's competition series, which culminates in a national game-showstyle contest held each May.

According to a study of race and equity in education, black athletes are dropping out of college across the country at alarming rates.

And that's not really the way they're used in this country.

Effectively, the ban will include the registration of new cars in the country as they will not allow any gasoline powered vehicle to be registered after 2030.

Experts believe there is a relationship between adult abuse of legitimate medicines and the drug culture that has swept our country.

given the moth's ability also to attack crops like pepper and potatoes, Audu Ogbeh, Nigeria's minister of agriculture, has warned that the pest may "create serious problems for food security" in the country.

I use the term "low-tier" cautiously, because GSU is a well-regarded research institution that attracts high quality professors and faculty from all over the country.

In England,where architecture was increasingly seen as an aristocratic pursuit, noblemen often applied what they learned from the villas of Palladio in the Veneto and the evocative ruins of Rome to their own country houses and gardens.

It is the season for some frantic last-minute math一across the country, employees of all stripes are counting backward in an attempt to figure out just how much paid time-off they have left in their reserves.

Italy is not the only country to focus on reducing food waste.

Medical spending, which typically rises faster than wages and the overall economy, is propelled by two things: the high prices charged for medical services in this country and the volume of unnecessary care delivered by doctors and hospitals, which often

More than 30 airports across the country now have therapy dogs.

Other efforts to increase the use of electric vehicles include plans to build over 1 million hybrid and electric car battery charging stations across the country.

That's the highest percentage of an exclusive economic zone devoted to marine conservation by any country in the world.

The country is also planning to reduce its carbon footprint by 80-95% by 2050, sparking a shift to green energy in the country.

The country is still hopeful that it will meet its emissions goals, like reducing emissions by 40% by 2020, but the acceptance of electric cars in the country has not occurred as fast as expected.

The method of calculating the poverty line is different from country to country.

The National Association of Social Workers represents nearly 145, 000 social workers across the country.

There are more than 600, 000 professional social workers in the country, and we all either have a bachelor's degree, a master's degree or a PhD in social work.

This week the Italian government passed legislation that aimed to dramatically reduce the amount of food wasted in the country.

Too many people in this country, including some among our elected leadership, still do not understand how science works or why robust, long-range investments in research vitally matter.

We often hear people say that America is a land of opportunity, a country built on hope to aspire to greatness on the American Dream.

After he was put on disability for a bad back, he bought a small farm in the country, just enough to grow food for the family.

Agricultural harvests in rich countries fall.

All across the country, recovery centers have begun building healing gardens.

And if it works, the idea could spread to other parts of the country.

And that's true all across the country.

Around the world, people are adapting in surprising ways, especially in some poor countries.

Both men and women are living longer these days in industrialized countries.

But just now how much warmer it will get depends on how deeply countries cut carbon emissions.

China's image is improving steadily, with more countries recognizing its role in international affairs.

Companies have been testing their vehicles in cities across the country.

Even more worryingly, the fascination with the Internet by people in rich countries has moved the international community to worry about the "digital divide" between the rich countries and the poor countries.

Even when the machines are recycled and the harmful metals removed, the recycling process often is carried out in poor countries, in practically uncontrolled ways which allow many poisonous substances to escape into the environment.

Farmers in many countries are also adapting like this—either by growing new produce, or by growing the same things differently.

First celebrated in 1970, the day now includes events in more than 190 countries and regions.

Gas emissions have been effectively reduced in developed countries.

Governments of poor countries need more aid.

He comforted himself with the thought she had died in the most beautiful part of the country.

His works have received many prizes and have been shown in over 100 exhibitions across the country, Los Angeles, New York, philadelphia, to name just a few.

I enjoy nearly all kinds of music, especially country music and classical music.

I guess that can be true in any big city in a new country, but the French do seem to be less friendly than the people back home.

If you are arriving from overseas, bring no food, animal or plant material into the country.

In Greece, in Athens, a little city in a little country, there were no helpless masses.

In many countries the concept of extended producer responsibility is being considered or has been put in place as an incentive for reducing waste.

In the back country, bury your toilet waste in a shallow hole away from waterways.

In the sierra high country, the number of big trees has fallen by more than 55 percent; in parts of southern California the decline was nearly 75 percent.

Indeed official figures suggest the country has shrunk by 5% since 1993 and people in Russia live a shorter life now than those in 1961.

It would be difficult for developed countries to maintain the of population.

Italians always "see me as a foreigner," an outsider, even though she's stayed in the country for years and can speak the local language fluently, she said.

Italy is the latest western European country trying to control a growing immigrant population by demanding language skills in exchange for work permits, or in some cases, citizenship.

It's your dad's idea to spend christmas at this country hotel.

Kristin Chenoweth and Peter Gallagher star in the musical comedy by Betty Comden and Adolph Green,about a broadway producer who tries to win a movie star's love during a cross-country train journey.

Leaving aside the birth rate issue, India's economy may take off when the country achieves of educational opportunity.

Let's go for a nice walk into the country this afternoon.

Many westerners who/that come to China cook much less than in their own countries once they realize how cheap it can be to eat out.

More recently, the Paris Agreement, stuck by nearly 200 countries, also aims to limit global warming.

My father travels a lot to many countries and he is doing business in dubai now.

Other European countries laid down a similar requirement for immigrants, and some terms are even tougher.

Phil Blythe explains: "For many older people, particularly those living alone or in the country, driving is important for preserving their independence, giving them the freedom to get out and about without having to rely on others."

Poor countries suffer less from droughts economically.

Rich countries gain more from powerful Nifio, on balance, than they lose.

Rich countries' gains are greater than their losses.

Russia is another country with population problems that could break its economic promise.

She became an athletic star in her country.

She was eager to do more for her country.

She wishes to go back to her home country.

Since 2011, the country has grown more corn than rice.

Some countries have decided to continue these reductions until 2020.

That's exactly what is happening in small neighborhoods around the country from orange county, California, where 22 measles cases were reported this month, to brooklyn, n.

The fascination with the ict information and communication technology revolution, represented by the Internet, has made some rich countries wrongly conclude that making things is so " yesterday " that they should try to live on ideas.

The foods we eat—and when and how we eat them—are often unique to a particular culture or may even differ between rural and urban areas within one country.

The forecast for the end of the month is for much warmer and drier weather in all parts of the country.

The impact of dropping birth rate on developing countries may not be but disastrous.

The problem is that countries around the world have growing mountains of rubbish because people are throwing out more rubbish than ever before.

The question, however, is whether this is what the developing countries need the most.

The site now has more than one million members in more than one hundred thirty-five countries.

The total rise in agricultural incomes in rich countries is greater than the fall in poor ones.

The Yellowstone wolf project has been a valuable experiment to help biologists decide whether to reintroduce wolves to other parts of the country as well.

This belief in "post-industrial society" has led those countries to neglect their manufacturing sector with negative consequences for their economies.

This country is heating up too quickly.

This has led companies and individuals to donate money to developing countries to buy computer equipment and Internet facilities.

To meet this minimum goal, the agreement requires countries to tighten emissions targets every five years.

We're staying in a country inn.

We've lit up the night as if it were an unoccupied country, when nothing could be further form the truth.

While the students came from different countries, they got along quite well in the summer camp.

You know, when you're fifteen years old in my country, you finish school and then you learn a trade.

Thus poor countries might not be able to escape their poverty traps without political changes that may be possible only with broader formal education.

The relationship between formal education and economic growth in poor countries is widely misunderstood by economists and politicians alike.

The findings of a research institution have consistently shown that workers in all countries can be trained on the job to achieve radical higher productivity and, as a result, radically higher standards of living.

Progress in both area is undoubtedly necessary for the social, political and intellectual development of these and all other societies; however, the conventional view that education should be one of the very highest priorities for promoting rapid economic development in poor countries is wrong.

Not long ago, with the country entering a recession and Japan at its pre-bubble peak.

Despite variations in detail, wholesale markets in the countries that have been closely examined— France, Germany, Italy and Spain—are made out of the same building blocks.

In many rich countries average wages in the state sector are higher than in the private one.

After all, other countries, such as Australia and Britain, have started liberalizing their legal professions.

The United States is the product of two principal forces-the immigration of European peoples with their varied ideas, customs, and national characteristics and the impact of a new country which modified these traits.

While polls show Britons rate “the countryside” alongside the royal family, Shakespeare and the National Health Service ( ' , NHS) as what makes them proudest of their country, this has limited political support.

In Denmark, the United States, and a few other countries, it is trying to set voluntary standards for models and fashion images that rely more on peer pressure for enforcement.

Half a century of town and country planning has enabled it to retain an enviable rural coherence, while still permitting low-density urban living.

For the first time in history more people live in towns than in the country.

After the Netherlands, Britain is Europe’s most crowed country.

The changes identified by David Graddol all present clear and major challenges to UK`s providers of English language teaching to people of other countries and to broader education business sectors.

David Graddol concludes that monoglot English graduates face a bleak economic future as qualified multilingual youngsters from other countries are proving to have a competitive advantage over their British counterparts in global companies and organizations.

As the international education market expands, the recent slowdown in the number of international students studying in the main English-speaking countries is likely to continue, especially if there are no effective strategic policies to prevent such slippage.

Alongside that,many countries are introducing English into the primary-school curriculum but British schoolchildren and students do not appear to be gaining greater encouragement to achieve fluency in other languages.

Yet this isn’t the case with all countries.

While all of these countries face their own challenges , there are a number of consistent themes.

This is a lesson that rich countries can learn : When GDP is no longer regarded as the sole measure of a country’s success, the world looks very different.

Some relatively poor European countries have seen huge improvements across measures including civil society , income equality and the environment.

Rather than just focusing on GDP, over 40 different sets of criteria from health, education and civil society engagement have been measured to get a more rounded assessment of how countries are performing.

Kennedy once said that a country’s GDP measures “everything except that which makes life worthwhile.”

If everything was going so well, then why did over 17 million people vote for Brexit, despite the warnings about what it could do to their country’s economic prospects?.

Across the 163 countries measured, the UK is one of the poorest performers in ensuring that economic growth is translated into meaningful improvements for its citizens.

A recent annual study of countries and their ability to convert growth into well-being sheds some light on that question.

Mullett, it was built from 1871 to 1888 to house the growing staffs of the State, War, and Navy Departments, and is considered one of the best examples of French Second Empire architecture in the country.

"It's already a huge problem from a public expenditure perspective for the whole country," he says.

Across the country, factory owners are now grappling with a new challenge: Instead of having too many workers, they may end up with too few.

After the Netherlands, Britain is Europe's most crowded country.

As fewer such workers enter the country, the characteristics of the agricultural workforce are changing.

But even now, 54 percent of the jobs in the country are middle-skill jobs, such as construction and high-skill manufacturing.

In an essay entitled "Making it in America", the author Adam Davidson relates a joke from cotton country about just how much a modern textile mill has been automated: The average mill has only two employees today, "a man and a dog".

In other words, at a time when the working class has turned the country on its political head, frustrated that the opportunity that once defined America is vanishing, one obvious solution is staring us in the face.

India has just announced it will "eliminate all single-use plastic in the country by 2022". There are also incentive-based ways of making better environmental choices easier, such as ensuring recycling is at least as easy as trash disposal.

School districts across the country, most recently Los Angeles Unified, are revising their thinking on this educational ritual.

The French tax is not just a unilateral move by one country in need of revenue.

While polls show Britons rate "the countryside" alongside the royal family, Shakespeare and the National Health Service as what makes them proudest of their country, this has limited political support.

词组搭配

across country

not keeping to roads

不沿着大路；穿过田野

their route was across country, through fields of corn.
他们没走大路，是穿过玉米地走的

go (或 appeal) to the country

(Brit.)test public opinion by dissolving Parliament and holding a general election

(英)（解散议会）举行普选

line of country

(Brit.)a subject in which a person is skilled or knowledgeable

(英)精通的领域

in country

In Vietnam during the period of U.S. military operations there

越战时在越南：美国军事行动时期在越南

“He'd been in country a month longer than the other four”(&b{Nelson DeMille})
“他比其他四个人已在越南多呆了一个月”(&b{纳尔逊·德米耶})

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It's good to meet people from different parts of the country .: 结识来自这个国家不同地区的人是有益的。

open/wooded, etc. country: 空旷、树木繁茂等的地区

superb walking country: 最佳的徒步旅行区域

Explore Thomas Hardy country.: 踏访托马斯·哈代小说描写的地区。

They have the support of most of the country.: 他们有大多数国民的支持。

The rich benefited from the reforms, not the country as a whole .: 富人而不是全体国民得益于这些改革。

to live in the country: 住在乡下

We spent a pleasant day in the country.: 我们在乡下度过了愉快的一天。

a country lane: 乡间小路

pop, folk and country: 流行、民间和乡村音乐

riding across country: 骑马穿过田野

She didn't know what life in a foreign country would be like.: 她不知道外国的生活会是什么样。

European countries: 欧洲国家

leading industrial countries: 最重要的工业国家

The Prime Minister does not have to go to the country for another year.: 首相明年也不用举行大选。

We've just moved all the way across country to begin a new life.: 我们刚刚经过长途的搬迁来这里开始一种新生活。

She was cycling along a country road near Compiegne...: 她正骑车行进在贡比涅附近的乡村道路上。

Varese Ligure is a small town in mountainous country east of Genoa.: 瓦雷泽古雷是位于热那亚以东山区的一座小城。

...some of the best walking country in the Sierras...: 喜艾拉生态保护区内一些最适宜散步的地区

For a long time I just wanted to play country music.: 有很长一段时间我只想弹奏乡村音乐。

...a famous country singer named Katie Cocker.: 一位名为凯蒂·科克尔的著名乡村乐歌手

From here we walked across country to Covington.: 我们从这儿走乡间小路去卡温顿。

...a healthy life in the country...: 乡下的健康生活

Indonesia is the fourth most populous country in the world.: 印度尼西亚是世界上第四大人口大国。

...that disputed boundary between the two countries...: 两国之间存有争议的边境地区

The country had confounded the pundits by electing a fourth-term Tory government...: 该国国民连续四次选举托利党来执掌政府，这令专家们困惑不已。

Seventy per cent of this country is opposed to blood sports.: 该国70%的人反对猎兽活动。

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across country

go (或 appeal) to the country

line of country

in country

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