nation state

基本解释

The first is this, that China is not really a nation state.
首先是这个，中国事实上不是一个民族国家。
We were wrong because we though, naturally enough in nation state ways.
我们错是因为我们理所当然地以民族国家角度思考。
In other words, China, unlike the Western states and most countries in the world, is shaped by its sense of civilization, its existence as a civilization state, rather than as a nation state.
换言之，中国不像世界上的西方国家和多数国家，它由它自身文明所形成，它是作为一个文明国家而不是一个民族国家而存在的。

That is because it became a state in eighteen seventy-six, exactly one hundred years after the nation declared its independence.
And so things like affirmative action, things such as how should university treat its workers, how should university treat its surrounding community, state, the nation.
比如反歧视性政策，比如工人们在大学的待遇，比如大学如何处理它和,周边社区，洲和国家的关系。
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He seems to have had some work as the state licenser, but also more importantly as the nation's Latin secretary, which means that he would compose and translate all of England's correspondence with the governments on the continent into and from Latin.
他作为国家执照签发人似乎真做了一些工作，但更重要的是,弥尔顿还担任了国家拉丁语文书，也就是说他要,把英格兰大陆上政府的所有通信,编译成拉丁文或者从拉丁文编译成英语。
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As he put it, only the Palestinians have a right to a nation state.
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