1·Albania is a small nation state of around 3 million people.
阿尔巴尼亚是一个拥有约3百万人口的单一民族独立国家。
—— 《柯林斯英汉双解大词典》
2·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。
3·Britain had been a highly successful nation state and global power.
英国曾经是一个成功的民族国家，也曾是一个全球性的大国。
4·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。
5·It MAY have been inevitable, but it was a sad moment for Portugal: Europe's oldest nation state brought low.
虽然对葡萄牙来说是必然，但这的确令人感伤：这个欧洲最古老的民族衰落了。
6·First, he said, the Palestinians must explicitly recognize Israel as the nation state of the Jewish people.
首先，他说，巴勒斯坦人必须明确承认以色列是犹太人的国家。
7·“Russia may yet emerge as a nation state, but in the process it could also turn ugly and nationalistic, ” he says.
“俄罗斯可能已经有民族国家的迹象，但是在这个过程中它同样也可能会变的丑陋、民族主义化”。
8·And the nation state, though he was well aware of its parochial and xenophobic limitations, seemed to be liberty's best incubator.
民族国家似乎是自由的最佳孵化器，虽然他非常清楚它的狭隘和排外的局限。
9·The representative of a company targeted by a recent cyber attack told the intelligence committee that it must have been committed by a nation state — but did not name it.
来自近期遭受了网络攻击的某个公司的代表告诉情报委员会，这一定是某个国家行为，但他并没有说是哪个国家。
10·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。