nation的解释

1. 国家
2. 民族
3. 国民
4. 种族
5. 印地安人的部落（联盟）
6. 学生同乡会
7. 国度
8. 部族

1. [C]国家 a large group of people living in one area and usually having an independent government
2. [C]民族 a large group of people with the same race and language

1.国家
Anation is an individual country considered together with its social and political structures.

e.g. Such policies would require unprecedented cooperation between nations...
这样的要求国家间进行空前的合作。
e.g. The Arab nations agreed to meet in Baghdad.
阿拉伯各国同意在巴格达会晤。

2.全体国民;国民
The nation is sometimes used to refer to all the people who live in a particular country.

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

1. Another new nation has been brought into being.
   又一个新国家诞生了。
2. This nation will not be brought to the ground by enemy action!
   这个国家决不会被敌对行动所毁灭!
3. However weak the nation may be, it will never bend to a greater power.
   无论这个国家多么弱小,它决不屈服于比它大的强国。
4. They again threatened to cut off aid to this nation.
   他们再次威胁要停止对该国的援助。
5. Some nations built their hopes for peace on the talks between big nations.
   有些国家把和平的希望建立在大国之间的谈判上。
6. They have built their economies at the expense of the other nations of the world.
   他们是以损害别国利益的办法发展他们经济的。
7. The two nations have been contending about the rights to deep-sea fishing in their waters.
   这两个国家一直为他们水域中的深水捕鱼权问题争吵不休。
8. The two nations have decided on the establishment of diplomatic relations.
   两国决定建立外交关系。
9. It is time the nations of the world called a halt to the manufacture of nuclear weapons.
   是世界各国停止制造核武器的时候了。
10. 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。
11. The British nation has not risen up in a generation.
    英国民族并非在一代时期崛起。
12. The story is about the Indian nations in the western United States.
    这个故事是关于美国西部印第安部落的。

• Africa..has become..a mass of nations.

  出自：D. Lessing

• ☆ 直接源自古法语的nacion，意为国土；最初源自拉丁语的nationem，意为部落。