名词

1. In 1790 the new nation had fewer than four million people.
1790年时这个新成立的国家的人口不到四百万。

2. We have established diplomatic relations with the newly independent nations.
我们已与那几个新近独立的国家建立了外交关系。

3. The whole nation is jubilant.
举国欢腾。

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

e.g. Such policies would require unprecedented cooperation between nations...
这样的政策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 the nation's heart.
这是一个感动了全体国民的故事。

noun

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

Synonym: landcountry

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