The history of Catalonia goes back to the early Middle Ages and believed to be a separate nation from the very beginning.

加泰罗尼亚的历史要追溯到中世纪早期，遍认为加泰罗尼亚从一开始就是一个独立国家。

It's a voluntary association of independent states many of which were former British colonies.

这是一个独立国家的自愿组织，其中很多是前英国殖民地。

But neither did he want to surrender America's rights as an independent nation.

但他也不想放弃美国作为独立国家的权利。

But they have their own independent state itself.

但是西是独立国家。

He regarded the nation-state as the basic building-block of civilisation.

戴高乐认为单一民族的独立国家是文明的基本组成部分。

It will be up to those independent nations to decide whether they take his advice.

那些独立国家将决定是否采纳特朗的建议。

They became a loosely formed group called the Commonwealth of Independent States.

他们成立了一个松散的组织，叫做独立国家联合体。

And Poland itself ceased to exist as an independent entity for the next 124 years.

波本身在接下来的 124 年里不再作为一个独立国家存在。

His conditions are not acceptable by us, or any other independent country.

他的条件我们无法接受，任何独立国家都无法接受。

Georgia claims them both; Russia considers them independent states.

格鲁吉亚承认两个地区;而俄罗斯认为它们是独立国家。

New Zealand and Australia are now independent countries.

西和澳大利亚现在都是独立国家。

This represents the short time Texas was an independent nation battling Mexico for self-rule.

这象征着德克萨斯州作为独立国家从墨西哥争取自治的短暂历史。

In order to preserve their peculiar lifestyle, they began to immigrate to the British colonies in North America in about 1720 (before Canada and the United States were formed as independent countries).

为了保存他们独特的生活方式，他们于1720年左右（在加拿大和美国成为独立国家之前）开始移居到北美的英国殖民地。

Von Eschen details how from 1956 to the late 1970s, black jazz musicians were dispatched to mostly newly independent nations in Africa, the Middle East, and Asia.

Von Eschen 详细描述了从1956年到20世纪70年代末，黑人爵士音乐家是如何被派往非洲、中东和亚洲的独立国家的。

Meantime, the White House says U.S. President Joe Biden has signed an executive order banning Americans from doing business in the two Ukrainian regions that Russia has recognized as independent states.

同时，白宫表示，美国总统乔·拜登已经签署了一项行政命令，禁止美国人在俄罗斯承认为独立国家的两个乌克地区开展业务。

Proposals to set up an independent country were rejected in a series of referendum votes but the most recent in 2021 was boycotted by the pro-independence indigenous Kanak people.

建立一个独立国家的提议在一系列公民投票中被拒绝，但最近一次在 2021 年被支持独立的土著卡纳克人抵制。

America's Founding Fathers walked these Old City streets, and the many heritage buildings in this area are preserved as part of the Independence National Historical Park.

美国的开国元勳曾漫步在旧城区街道上， 这个区域内的许多文化遗产建筑，也都被划入独立国家历史公园中受到妥善的维护。

The Caribbean islands are one of 14 independent nations, known as the Commonwealth realms, that continued to have the British monarch as their head of state.

加勒比海群岛是 14 个被称为英联邦王国的独立国家之一，这些国家继续由英国君主担任国家元首。

The tax systems we have each developed are based on cultural preferences which are at the heart of our individual national policies and preferences.

我们各自发展的税收体系是基于文化倾向的，这是我们独立国家政策和倾向的核心。

Scottish nationalists hope the taxes it generates, which amounted to 6.5 billion (10.1 billion) last year, will make an independent state rich.

苏格民族主义者希望由此带来的税收能使一个独立国家变富裕，此项税收去年就带来了65亿英镑（101亿美元）。