关于“国家”的英语名言

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国庆节是个严肃的节日，但不必严肃地过国庆节。读读几句含有“国家”字样或含义与“国家”沾边的名言吧，它们可不一定是严肃的说法哦。



You can't be a real country unless you have a beer and an airline - it helps if you have some kind of a football team, or some nuclear weapons, but at the very least you need a beer”

Frank Zappa quotes (American Composer, Guitarist, Satirist and Song Writer, 1940-1993)


没有啤酒喝，没有飞机坐，就算不上是一个真正的国家。如果有足球队之类的东西，或者有点核武器，那也不错，但至少得有啤酒。

Frank Zappa，美国作曲家、吉他手、讽刺作家、歌曲创作者



“Even as a tree has a single trunk, but many branches and leaves, there is one religion but any number of faiths”

正像大树虽然只有一根树干，但有许多树枝一样，一种宗教可以对应多种信仰。

圣雄甘地



“For Africa to me... is more than a glamorous fact. It is a historical truth. No man can know where he is going unless he knows exactly where he has been and exactly how he arrived at his present place.”

Maya Angelou quotes (American Poet, b.1928)

非洲对于我……不单单是一桩令人艳羡的事实,而且是历史性的真实。一个人如果不弄清自己到过哪里，不弄清自己是如何达致现在的境遇的，就决计不会明白要往哪儿去。

玛雅.安吉罗,著名美国黑人女诗人(1928- )

（博主：我有两篇博文与此女诗人有关，一是我翻译的她的一首诗（http://blog.sciencenet.cn/blog-1557-28349.html）；还有对她身世的介绍，（http://blog.sciencenet.cn/home.p ... o=blog&id=28590）。）

“New Zealand is a country of thirty thousand million sheep, three million of whom think they are human.”

Barry Humphries quotes ( b.1934)

新西兰这个国家有300亿只羊,其中300万认为自己是人。



Barry Humphries，澳大利亚作家、滑稽演员

（博主注：新西兰人口只有300多万。）



Canada is the essence of not being. Not English, not American, it is the mathematic of not being. And a subtle flavour - we're more like celery as a flavour.”

Mike Myers


加拿大是个“什么都不是”的典型，英不英，美不美，它是“什么都不是”的数学表达。味道也难以捉摸----我们比较像芹菜的味道。

Mike Myers，加拿大演员、电影制作人