Yes, it's the nation's favorite house servant.

没错，它是全国最受欢迎的家养小精灵。

All nations have a duty to act.

所有国家都有责任采取行动。

His speech began this way: “Four score and seven years ago, our fathers brought forth on this continent a new nation, conceived in liberty and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.”

“十七年前，我们先辈在这个大陆上创立了一个新国家，它孕育于自由之中，奉行一切人生来平等的原则。”

Being bad at maths should no longer be seen as " badge of honor" or down to genetics, according to National Numeracy, a new organization which aims to challenge the nation's negative view of the subject.

据新近成立的英国国家数学能力中心称，数学不好，不应再被看作是" 荣誉徽章" ，也不应再从祖先的基因遗传上找借口。他们旨在改变全国大众对数学的负面看法。

Well, at one time, the U.S. was called a melting pot, you know, which means that people of many different religions, cultures and races could shed their traditional cultural identities and blend into one homogeneous nation.

嗯，美国曾经被称为“大熔炉”，你知道，这意味着许不同宗教、文化种族的人可以拜托传统文化身份融入到一个统一的民族中。

A disunited nation therefore has to incur unduly high costs of government.

因此，一个处于分裂的国家必须要支付过高的行政管理费用。

This act triggered the First Opium War between the two nations.

这一行为触发了两国之间第一次鸦片战争。

Mark Twain suggested that an ingredient was missing in the American ambition when he said: " What a robust people, what a nation of thinkers we might be, if we would only lay ourselves on the shelf occasionally and renew our edges."

马克·吐温认为，美国人的理想中缺少了一种成分。他说：“如果我们能偶尔地躺下来好好放松休息一下，使我们的棱角始终保持锋利，那我们将有可能成为一个气蓬勃的民族，一个富有思想的民族啊！

Now the nation's top patent court appears completely ready to scale back on business-method patents, which have been controversial ever since they were first authorized 10 years ago.

现在，该国最高专利法院似乎完全准备好要缩减商业方法专利，因为商业方法专利自从十年前第一次批准授予以来一直有争议。

It would be fatal for the nation to overlook the urgency of the moment. This sweltering summer of the Negro's legitimate discontent will not pass until there is an invigorating autumn of freedom and equality.

如果美国忽视时间的迫切性低估黑人的决心，那，这对美国来说，将是致命伤。自由平等的爽朗秋天如不到来，黑人义愤填膺的酷暑就不会过去。

The wedding drew celebrities from across the nation and increased his own celebrity.

全美各界名人参加了这场婚礼，同时婚礼也提升了肯尼迪的名望。

And if we do not make realising the full benefits of being a United Kingdom of four proud nations and one united people our priority now, then in the future it may be too late.

如果我们都不将实现联合王国利益的最大化，团结四大构成国一国之民作为我们的优先事项，那将来可能为时已晚。

We will seek friendship and goodwill with the nations of the world, but we do so with the understanding that it is the right of all nations to put their own interests first.

我们会与世界各国睦相处，但我们这做时要明白，把自己的利益放在前面是所有国家的权利。

There's been a major change in the southern African nation of Zimbabwe.

最近南非国家津巴布韦发生了巨变。

Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif had declared earlier that the student should be honored with the nation's highest award for bravery.

巴基斯坦总理纳瓦兹·谢里夫早些时候声明，建议授予哈桑以国家英勇奖的最高奖励。

The announcements come on the heel of Britain, France, Germany, Italy and other European nations' decisions to join the institution.

此前英国、法国、德国、意大利及其他欧洲国家已宣布加入亚投行。

If our house was falling apart, you wouldn't be celebrating that one single nation like Ireland may soon divest from fossil fuels.

如果我们房子分崩离析，你就不会庆祝像爱尔兰这样的国家近期内会放弃化石燃料。

A nation will prosper only when its young people thrive.

青年强，则国家强。

My parents shared not only an improbable love; they shared an abiding faith in the possibilities of this nation.

我的父母不仅不可思议地彼此相爱，而且还对这个国家有了不移的信念。

What was in Picasso's head now was one more indelible image of the agony of his nation.

现在在毕加索的脑海里，是那幅有关国家苦难的挥之不去的画面。