首页英语词典nationnation的意思

nation

英 ['neɪʃ(ə)n] 美['neʃən]

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近义词country land

n. 国家；民族；国民
n. (Nation)人名；(英)内申

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复数: nations;

中文词源

nation 国家，民族

来自native,出生的，本土的，引申词义国家，民族。

英英释意

1. 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"

2. 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"

3. a federation of tribes (especially native American tribes);: "the Shawnee nation"

英文词源

nation: nation: [13] Etymologically a nation is a ‘breed’ or ‘stock’. It is one of a wide range of English words that go back ultimately to Latin nāscī ‘be born’, and its immediate source is the derived noun nātiō. This literally meant ‘that which has been born’, a ‘breed’, but was soon used by extension for a ‘species’ or ‘race’, and then by further narrowing down for a ‘race of people, nation’.

The notion of ‘common ancestry’ underlying the term survived into English, but over the centuries has gradually been overtaken by the political concept of an organized territorial unit. The derivative nationality dates from the 17th century.
=> native
nation (n.): c. 1300, from Old French nacion "birth, rank; descendants, relatives; country, homeland" (12c.) and directly from Latin nationem (nominative natio) "birth, origin; breed, stock, kind, species; race of people, tribe," literally "that which has been born," from natus, past participle of nasci "be born" (Old Latin gnasci; see genus). Political sense has gradually predominated, but earliest English examples inclined toward the racial meaning "large group of people with common ancestry." Older sense preserved in application to North American Indian peoples (1640s). Nation-building first attested 1907 (implied in nation-builder).

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。

nation, people, race

这些名词均含"民族，种族"之意。

nation：特指居住于同一区域，有共同历史、语言、文化及心理素质等的人类群体。

people：侧重指由有共同文化、社会基础而所形成的人民整体。

race：专指有共同祖先和相同肤色、面部特征等遗传特征以及共同风俗等的人群。

考试真题

Their life was much more comfortable than that of todayIt was helpful to maintaining a nation's tradition.

If the food situation continues to worsen, entire nations will break down at an ever increasing rate.

The implication is a sharp decline in global trade, which has plunged partly because oilproducing nations can't afford to import as much as they used to.

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.

It should be made clear that not everyone has a device to record their sleep patterns; in some of these nations, it's likely that only the richest people do.

Before you brush this argument aside as rubbish, or think of joy as an unaffordable luxury in a nation where there is awful poverty, low academic achievement, and high dropout rates, think again.

High school degrees offer far less in the way of preparation for work than they might, or than many other nations currently offer, creating a growing skills gap in our economy.

There is, in our view, no real dispute here, we are all seeking the same thing, which is schools that better serve our children and our nation by encouraging students to tackle tough subjects under the guidance of gifted teachers.

The competition only happens every four years and the last time the team went, they won the third place in the nation.

The EFK website states, "Our nation is not graduating enough engineers."

The name of the TV show we wish to produce is Science Nation.

We will become the first nation in Europe to publish a national health and care workforce plan.

The nations participating at COP 21 are focusing on quantitative emissions-reduction commitments.

Nations from around the world have gathered in Paris for the United Nations Climate Change Conference, COP 21, with the goal of a universal and potentially legally-binding agreement on reducing greenhouse gas emissions.

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

For example, the United Nations Children's Fund estimates that some 11 million children in Africa face hunger, disease, and water shortages as a result of the strongest El Ni o ( ' , 厄尔尼诺) weather phenomenon in decades.

Thoughts turn first to some sort of global statistic, some indicator which would rate the wealth of nations in both economic and environmental terms and show a relationship between the two.

The roots of his speech, given in March at the roundtable meeting of environment and energy ministers from the G20 group of nations, stretch back to 1972, and the United Nations Conference on the Human Environment in Stockholm.

Teachers need to be much better paid to attract the best college graduates to the nation's worst schools.

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

Measuring emissions is not a precise science, particularly when it comes to issues surrounding land use; not all nations have released up-to-date data, and in any case, emissions from some sectors such as aviation are not included in national statistics.

Citizens of wealthy nations demand national parks, clean rivers, clean air and poisonfree food.

A case can be made that rich nations export environmental problems, the most graphic example being climate change.

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

This is vital for climate-vulnerable nations.

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 U.S. trails far behind every wealthy nation and many developing ones that have family-friendly work policies including paid parental leave, paid sick days and breast-feeding support, according to a 2007 study.

Nations are also pressing ahead with space research and satellite projects to expand their global navigation abilities.

More than $100 billion in funding has been put on the table for supporting developing nations to reduce emissions.

It will motivate all nations to reduce carbon emissions.

However, the agreement specifies that there is no formal distinction between developed and developing nations in their responsibility to cut emissions, effectively ignoring historical emissions.

For the first time, the world's nations agreed to keep global warming well below 2 ℃.

Encouraging high-emitting nations to take the initiative.

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.

Colombia said this year that it planned to join other South American nations with bases in Antarctica.

Calling on all the nations concerned to make joint efforts.

Being stationed in Antarctica involves adapting to life on the planet's driest, windiest and coldest continent, yet each nation manages to make itself at home.

And it is clearly up to the current generation of leaders from high-emitting nations to decide whether they want to be remembered as climate change tyrants or pioneers.

Saying they can no longer ignore the rising prices of health care, some of the most influential medical groups in the nation are recommending that doctors weigh the costs, not just the effectiveness of treatments, as they make decisions about patient care.

In particular, Arum and Roksa found, college students were not developing the critical thinking, analytic reasoning and other higher-level skills that are necessary to thrive in today's knowledge-based economy and to lead our nation in a time of complex challenges and dynamic change.

A new term is created to address African AmericansAll ethnic groups share the nation's continued progress.

Sweden has gone farther than any other nation on earth to integrate the sexes and to offer women the same opportunities and freedoms as men.

Sweden has done more than other nations to close the gender gap.

Late-stage developing nations that are currently industrialising rapidly, for example China, which will experience declining rates of population growth, coupled with increasing affluence (富裕）and age profile.

In the modem industrialised agricultural process—which developing nations are moving towards in order to increase future yields—energy usage in the making and application of fertilisers and pesticides represents the single biggest component

In order to begin tackling the challenge, the Institution recommends that: The UN Food and Agriculture Organisation work with the international engineering community to ensure governments of developed nations put in place programmes that transfer engineering knowledge, design know-how, and suitable technology to newly developing countries

Governments in developed nations devise and implement policy that changes consumer expectations

By 1973, domestic US sources of oil were peaking, and the nation was importing more of its oil, depending on a constant flow from abroad to keep cars on the road and machines running.

Oil prices may exert influence not only on American government policies but on how energy is used in the nation

Craft work has higher status in nations like Germany, which invests in apprenticeship (学徒) programs for high school students.

Then, in 1973, the predominantly Arab nations of the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) resolved to stop selling oil to the United States.

These included developing additional domestic sources (such as those on Alaska's North Slope), resuming extraction at sites that had been shut down because of cost inefficiency, capping the price that domestic producers could charge for oil, and beginning to import oil from a greater diversity of nations.

A Nation That's Losing Its Toolbox The scene inside the Home Depot on Weyman Avenue here would give the old-time American craftsman pause

What can the West's overly indebted and sluggish (经济滞长的) nations learn from a flourishing Asia?

The United States once had the highest graduation rate of any nation.

As the nation moves further into the Obama presidency, will politically engaged young people continue to support the president and his agenda, or will they gradually drift away?

Without intervention they will be a headache to the nation.

30 people were present, and all, except me, me from the island called McClure in the nation of nut.

In particular, Arum and Roksa found, college students were not developing the critical thinking, analytic reasoning and other higher-level skills that are necessary to thrive in today's knowledge-based economy and to lead our nation in a time of complex c

Palau has only been an independent nation for twenty years and has a strong history of environmental protection.

Saying they can no longer ignore the rising prices of health care, some of the most influential medical groups in the nation are recommending that doctors weigh the costs, not just the effectiveness of treatments, as they make decisions about patient care

The Pacific island nation of Palau has become home to the sixth largest marine sanctuary in the world.

The tiny island nation has set aside 500, 000 square kilometers 80 percent—of its maritime territory, for full protection.

As for the USA, it is almost unique among developed nations in having a population that is expected to grow by 20% from 2010—2030.

If nations could only keep the initial promises of the Paris Agreement, what would happen by the year 2100?

If those island nations not far above sea level are to survive, the maximum temperature rise, since the start of the industrial age, should be 0.

In fact, half of the 6, 000-7, 000 languages spoken around the world today will likely die out by the next century, according to the united nations educational, scientific and cultural organization UNESCO.

Nations would not need to tighten their emissions targets.

Others say it's only natural that newcomers learn the language of their host nation, seeing it as a condition to ensure they can contribute to society.

This is how much temperatures would rise by 2100 even if nations live up to the initial Paris promises to reduce carbon emissions; this rise could still put coastal cities under water and drive over half of all species to extinction.

This is the most ambitious goal for temperature rise set by the Paris agreement, after a push by low-lying island nations like Kiribati, which say limiting temperature rise to ?

Understanding history is vital to understanding ourselves as a people and as a nation.

Unesco united nations educational, scientific and cultural organization recently set April 30 as a day to raise awareness of Jazz music, its significance, and its potential as a unifying voice across cultures.

When vaccination rates are very high, as they still are in the nation as a whole, everyone is protected.

You might think that developing nations would make up the loss especially since 80% of the world's people now live in such nations, but you'd be wrong.

Now the nation's top patent court appears completely ready to scale back on business-method patents, which have been controversial ever since they were first authorized 10 years ago.

During the late 1990s，national spending on social sciences and the humanities as a percentage of all research and development funds-including government, higher education, non-profit and corporate—varied from around 4% to 25%; in most European nations, it is about 15%.

This movement, driven by powerful and diverse motivations, built a nation out of a wilderness and, by its nature, shaped the character and destiny of an uncharted continent.

So, what Kennedy was referring to was that while GDP has been the most common method for measuring the economic activity of nations , as a measure , it is no longer enough.

A small but vocal group of Hawaiians and environments have long viewed their presence as disrespect for sacred land and a painful reminder of the occupation of what was once a sovereign nation.

The building has housed some of the nation's most significant diplomats and politicians and has been the scene of many historic events.

The State, War, and Navy Building, as it was originally known, housed the three Executive Branch Departments most intimately associated with formulating and conducting the nation's foreign policy in the last quarter of the nineteenth century and the first quarter of the twentieth century-the period when the United States emerged as an international power.

Planning documents pledged that the great legacy of the Games would be to lever a nation of sport lovers away from their couches.

词组搭配

one nation

[often as modifier]a nation not divided by social inequality

一个国家，不分贫富

one-nation Tories.
主张天下大同的托利党人。

实用场景例句

an independent nation: 独立的国家

the African nations: 非洲各国

The entire nation, it seemed, was watching TV.: 好像全国的人都在看电视。

[不可数名词]Citizenship is about the sense of nationhood.: 公民身份涉及国家意识。

Such policies would require unprecedented cooperation between nations...: 这样的政策要求国家间进行空前的合作。

The Arab nations agreed to meet in Baghdad.: 阿拉伯各国同意在巴格达会晤。

It was a story that touched the nation's heart.: 这是一个感动了全体国民的故事。

US Presient Kennedy is assassinated.: 美国总统肯尼迪遇刺身亡.

O! The Huanghe ( River ), cradle of the Chinese nation.: 啊! 黄河, 你是中华民族的摇篮.

The affairs of the nation have been abandoned to dishonest politicians.: 治国大权已落入诡诈的政客手中.

We shall take our place in the world as a nation with an advanced culture.: 我们将以一个具有高度文化的民族出现于世界.

Another new nation has been brought into being.: 又一个新国家诞生了.

The news of victory rejoiced the heart of the whole nation.: 胜利的喜悦使全国人民欢欣鼓舞.

The British nation has not risen up in a generation.: 英国民族并非在一代时期崛起.

The reactionary officials took bribes insatiably, giving not the least care to the future of the nation.: 反动官僚贪贿无艺,根本不把国家前途放在心上.

Gone are the days when a big nation could lord it over small ones.: 大国可以对小国称王称霸的日子已经一去不复返了.

The nation declined as a world power.: 作为一个世界强国,这个国家已经衰落.

The discoverer claimed the island for the nation.: 那个发现者宣布该岛属于他的国家.

On hearing of the victory, the nation was transported with joy.: 听到胜利的消息, 全国人民一片欢腾.

The nation wants peace; only a minority want the war to continue.: 国家要和平, 只有少数人要战争继续下去.

For years the nation had been under the heel of a dictatorial regime.: 多年来这个国家一直在独裁政权的铁蹄下.

The whole nation feels with the families of those who were drowned in the great floods.: 全国人民都对特大洪水中受难者的家属深表同情.

Tactics differs from strategy, which refers to the overall plans of a nation at war.: 战术不同于战略, 战略是指战争期间一个国家整体的作战计划.

They look forward to their rebirth as a nation.: 他们期待着全民族的新生.

The exhibition is designed to reflect the diversity of the nation and its regions.: 这次展览的本意就是要反映这个国家民族和地域的多样性.

The nation must be aroused from its unwillingness to work.: 应该鼓励这个民族从怠惰的状态中奋起.

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