单词 | national |
释义 | national (næʃənəl ) Word forms: nationals 1. adjective [usually ADJECTIVE noun] A2 National means relating to the whole of a country or nation rather than to part of it or to other nations. Ruling parties have lost ground in national and local elections. ...major national and international issues. Synonyms: nationwide, state, public, federal nationally adverb [ADVERB with verb, ADVERB adjective] ...a nationally televised speech. Duncan Campbell is nationally known for his investigative work. 2. adjective [ADJECTIVE noun] A2 National means typical of the people or customs of a particular country or nation. ...the national characteristics and history of the country. Baseball is the national pastime. Synonyms: ethnic, social, native, racial 3. countable noun [usually adjective NOUN] You can refer to someone who is legally a citizen of a country as a national of that country. ...a Sri-Lankan-born British national. Synonyms: citizen, subject, resident, native Collocations: national citizen Our national citizen service will do just this. Times, Sunday Times He has praised its 'terribly crucial work' and made reference to it as a role model when he announced plans to set up the national citizen service. Times, Sunday Times Yesterday, he promised zero tolerance of crime, national citizen service for 16-year-olds and - yes, you've guessed it - to 'mend our broken society'. The Sun According to its supporters, this legitimacy-rich approach to national citizen lawmaking has been very successful. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 And we have launched a national citizen's charter that enlists communities across the country to monitor public services and report corrupt acts. Times, Sunday Times If we renationalise the national network, we will be going back to the 1970s. The Sun He recruited thousands of observers across the country to measure the nation's rainfall in what was the world's first national network of rainfall monitoring. Times, Sunday Times Over the past six years the national network has shrunk from nearly 18,000 to just over 14,000. Times, Sunday Times The national network of 6,000 cameras faces being dramatically reduced as councils across the country prepare to cut back their schemes. Times, Sunday Times You have, as ever, a national network that delivers books from far away. Times, Sunday Times Such a vaccine could be stockpiled now, so its national origin would not matter. Times, Sunday Times Regardless of their national origin, performers receive the best treatment. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Questions of nation, language, national origin became politically sensitive matters. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 The sculpture was funded by some 150 corporations of local and national origin. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 The case may also have some implications for streaming of copyrighted content based on national origin. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Objecting to new developments has become the national pastime - if all the objectors are successful, we will simply run out of power. Times, Sunday Times Maybe we should officially recognise pain as the national pastime. Times, Sunday Times Yoga came into its own as a national pastime during the 1950s and 60s. The Times Literary Supplement What was a pleasant national pastime has suddenly been divided down intensely party political lines. Times, Sunday Times Buying fine art and original prints has become a national pastime, with modern and contemporary pictures especially enthusiastically sought in the past year. Times, Sunday Times They have little or no respect for traditional democratic niceties and seem to believe their personal whims should dictate national policy. Times, Sunday Times It was agreed at the national policy forum and conference last year. Times, Sunday Times It also goes against their own policy and against national policy. Times, Sunday Times It's not often that the blocking of a single deal brings a whole area of national policy to a grinding halt. Times, Sunday Times But the national policy, while loud in proclaiming the need to save adult lives today, fails to address the cost to the adults of tomorrow. Times,Sunday Times Is that as dangerous as the national politics of the 1930s? Times, Sunday Times Meanwhile, in national politics the whole subject has been consigned to the graveyard of absolute ideological confrontation. Times, Sunday Times Last week the mission was fulfilled just as he was about to leave the province for national politics. ST First, even more than national politics, local elections involve three-way contests. Times, Sunday Times Suave and telegenic, he used his long career there as a springboard into national politics. Times,Sunday Times We analysed the numbers underneath the national poll ratings. Times, Sunday Times He was broke and had fallen to less than 1% in one national poll (denoted by a dreaded asterisk). Times, Sunday Times A national poll before and after the experiment will see if it has worked. The Sun At the last local elections, hidden in a dismal national poll, they came first in places where they held the parliamentary seat. Times, Sunday Times The national poll, of more than 2,000 people, carried out after the decision to go ahead with the third runway was announced, shows only 29% support it, with 42% opposed. Times, Sunday Times Yet so far, only one in five has signed the national register. The Sun The national register could replace or supplement the present system of local registers throughout the country. Times, Sunday Times So they signed up to the national register of approved adopters and began attending exchange days, when prospective families and adoption agencies can meet. Times, Sunday Times These include unlimited fines for companies which breach them and a national register of incidents caused by defective products. Times, Sunday Times A national register now being set up to regularly update the public on charging points for electric vehicles should help. The Sun Campaigners argue that it favours big corporations over workers, consumers and national sovereignty, leaving countries vulnerable to legal action from multinationals. Times, Sunday Times For international criminal justice comes at a cost: the erosion of national sovereignty. Times, Sunday Times It prizes effectiveness over democracy and national sovereignty. Times, Sunday Times And, he added, it requires 'serious infringements of national sovereignty and integrity which no democratic government could possibly accept'. Times, Sunday Times When questions of national sovereignty can be judged only by self-appointing lawyers, we have a problem. Times, Sunday Times Teachers mark their own pupils' answers in the tests for seven-year-olds, so the results are meaningless in terms of a national standard. Times, Sunday Times The night before had been devoted to planning a lesson on prime numbers, the national standard at which the class should have arrived. Times, Sunday Times Moving uniform-cleaning back into hospitals would minimise the risks of not meeting a national standard, it suggested. Times, Sunday Times The new national standard, which will apply to all routes, says that the acceptable number of standing passengers has tripled to 30 per 100 seats. Times, Sunday Times The statistics show that if the hospital met the national standard, 71 lives could have been saved. The Sun The online surveys polled 1,000 people in the ten cities, while the national survey incorporated the views of more than 2,000 people across the country. Times, Sunday Times It was part of the launch of her national survey about the early development. The Sun The report was based on focus groups with older people and their carers, a national survey of 689 over-65s, and a review of unresolved complaints brought to the ombudsman. Times, Sunday Times The national survey was conducted by mail questionnaire. canada.com Students here are among the most satisfied in the country, according to the first national survey of their views. Times, Sunday Times He won three caps for the national team. Times,Sunday Times Why, then, should the national team be any different? Times, Sunday Times The organisation has been so involved in its own politicking it has had little time for such fripperies as the national team. Times, Sunday Times You can experiment in league games, but you do not have time in a national team fixture. Times, Sunday Times I like to see my players going to the national team. Times, Sunday Times This week, he went on national television to promote his biography. Times, Sunday Times She moved on to work in national television news, covering politics and gritty crime stories. Times, Sunday Times I don't know how he can go on national television and say he wasn't aware, that he didn't know anything about it. Times, Sunday Times After this aired on national television, a media storm ensued. Times, Sunday Times World series sevens tournaments are played on loop on national television. Times, Sunday Times The groans were replaced with acclaim when a side tipped for relegation won the first national title in their history. Times, Sunday Times Winning the national title burst open the bubble. Times, Sunday Times The 20-year-old, below, produced a forward three and a half somersaults with one twist pike to secure his second national title. Times, Sunday Times The old-stager duly took his seventh national title, but his time of 10.04sec seemed like a relic from the past. Times, Sunday Times Next week the 15-year-old must defend her national title. Times, Sunday Times He certainly polarises opinion back home, between national treasure and pampered under-performer. Times, Sunday Times Community organisations working with marginalised groups, providing support on a voluntary basis, are a national treasure. Times, Sunday Times Watch her transition to national treasure begin here. Times, Sunday Times Yes, she's a 'national treasure' and utterly lovely — but there's also a steeliness to her. Times, Sunday Times Some have been prize turkeys (see panel), but others have attained the status of national treasure. Times, Sunday Times Translations: Chinese: 国家的 Japanese: 国民の |
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