英汉词典

nation 基本解释

• n. 国家；民族；国民
• n. (Nation)人名；(英)内申

nation 词态变化

nation 中文词源

来自native,出生的，本土的，引申词义国家，民族。

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.
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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).

nation 词组搭配

nation 英文释义

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"

nation 同义词解析

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。

nation 双语例句

1. Albania is a small nation state of around 3 million people.

阿尔巴尼亚是一个大约有300万人口的单一民族独立国家。

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2. Young people came from the four corners of the nation.

全国各地的年轻人都来到这里。

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3. How much can the President relax his grip over the nation?

总统可以对国家的控制放松到什么样的程度？

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4. The nation's unemployment rate has been climbing steadily since last June.

自去年6月以来，该国的失业率一直在不断上升。

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5. The crew are of different nation-alities and have no common language.

船员来自不同国家，语言不通。

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nation 实用场景例句

an independent nation

独立的国家

牛津词典

the African nations

非洲各国

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The entire nation, it seemed, was watching TV.

好像全国的人都在看电视。

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[不可数名词]Citizenship is about the sense of nationhood.

公民身份涉及国家意识。

牛津词典

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。

柯林斯高阶英语词典

The Arab nations agreed to meet in Baghdad.

阿拉伯各国同意在巴格达会晤。

柯林斯高阶英语词典

It was a story that touched the nation's heart.

这是一个感动了全体国民的故事。

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US Presient Kennedy is assassinated.

美国总统肯尼迪遇刺身亡.

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O! The Huanghe ( River ), cradle of the Chinese nation.

啊! 黄河, 你是中华民族的摇篮.

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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.

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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.

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Another new nation has been brought into being.

又一个新国家诞生了.

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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.

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The British nation has not risen up in a generation.

英国民族并非在一代时期崛起.

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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.

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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.

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The nation declined as a world power.

作为一个世界强国,这个国家已经衰落.

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The discoverer claimed the island for the nation.

那个发现者宣布该岛属于他的国家.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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They look forward to their rebirth as a nation.

他们期待着全民族的新生.

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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.

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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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