名词
1. 国家
A nation is an individual country considered together with its social and political structures.
2. 全体国民;国民
The nation is sometimes used to refer to all the people who live in a particular country.
1. the people who live in a nation or country
e.g. a statement that sums up the nation's mood
the news was announced to the nation
the whole country worshipped him
2. a politically organized body of people under a single government
e.g. 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
Synonym: statecountrylandcommonwealthres publicabody politic
3. a federation of tribes (especially Native American tribes)
e.g. the Shawnee nation