nation state

基本解釋

The first is this, that China is not really a nation state.
首先是這個，中國事實上不是一個民族國家。
We were wrong because we though, naturally enough in nation state ways.
我們錯是因為我們理所當然地以民族國家角度思考。
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.
換言之，中國不像世界上的西方國家和多數(shù)國家，它由它自身文明所形成，它是作為一個文明國家而不是一個民族國家而存在的。

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.
比如反歧視性政策，比如工人們在大學(xué)的待遇，比如大學(xué)如何處理它和,周邊社區(qū)，洲和國家的關(guān)系。
普林斯頓公開課 - 人性課程節(jié)選
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.
他作為國家執(zhí)照簽發(fā)人似乎真做了一些工作，但更重要的是,彌爾頓還擔(dān)任了國家拉丁語文書，也就是說他要,把英格蘭大陸上政府的所有通信,編譯成拉丁文或者從拉丁文編譯成英語。
耶魯公開課 - 彌爾頓課程節(jié)選

As he put it, only the Palestinians have a right to a nation state.
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