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单词 family of nations
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family of nations
family of nations n. (originally) the countries of the world considered as a group; (in later use) a group of nations (in various senses) bound together by linguistic, political, or other ties.
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1605 J. Radford Directorie teaching Way to Truth 285 As the holie Prophet foretolde, saying, All the families of nations shoulde worshippe in his sight.
1785 Crit. Rev. Aug. 124 Commerce..connects the most distant quarters of the globe, and forms one harmonious family of nations.
1840 G. Bancroft Hist. U.S. III. xxii. 249 The whole country south-east, south, and west of the Cherokees..was in the possession of one great family of nations, of which the language was named by the French the Mobilian.
1906 T. Hodgkin Hist. Eng. from Earliest Times to Norman Conquest vi. 80 They all belonged to the great Low German family of nations, to which the Goths probably belonged.
2010 H. Majd Ayatollahs' Democracy 171 He also suggested that Iran would have to behave according to Western standards..before it could take its rightful place among the family of nations.
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