| 释义 |
nation noun—国 n (almost always used) ()民族 n ()Examples:The rise and fall of the nation concerns everyone (idiom). Everyone bears responsibility for the prosperity of society.—national danger, but no support (idiom, from Analects); the future of the nation is at stake but no-one comes the rescue—most-favored nation (trade status)—armed enemy of the nation—much hardships may awaken a nation (idiom); calamity that prompts renewal—the people are impoverished, their means exhausted (idiom); drive the nation to bankruptcy—Republic of Palau or Belau (Pacific island nation)—the crisis year of 1900 involving the Boxer uprising and the eight nation military invasion—give one's body for the nation (idiom); to spend one's whole life in the service of the country—borrow talent from abroad to develop the nation effectively—father or founder of a nation—spiritual leader (of a nation or church)—Save the Nation anti-Japanese organization—Wales, constituent nation of UK—(of a nation) be destroyed—raise one's head and look around (esp. at the state of the nation)—Eight-Nation Alliance, involved in a military intervention in northern China in 1900—unification (of the nation)—ruling a large nation is like cooking a small delicacy [idiom.]—bring the entire nation to arms [idiom.]—Five ghosts mock the judge, or Five ghosts resist judgment (title of folk opera, idiom); important personage mobbed by a crowd of ne'er-do-wells—Guyana, NE of South America (Tw)—Suriname, NE of South America (Tw)—Ethiopia, NE Africa (Tw)— |