"the state has elected a new president"
"African nations"
"students who had come to the nation's capitol"
"the country's largest manufacturer"
"an industrialized land"
1. 英联邦国家:注意不同的军队对同一个词的使用是不同的,例如美军的一个squadron可以是一个营级(battalion-sized)骑兵(cavalry)单位;而在英联邦国家(commonwealth)军队中它是一个连级(company-sized)单位.
2. 共和国:因为,那些为共和国(commonwealth)献出生命的人,他们因此接受了不朽的奖赏与最光荣的坟茔;他们不是仅仅被埋葬在坟丘所在之地,他们将与他们的荣耀共存,与那些被人们永远纪念的言辞与行动同在!
Writers on publick law have often called this aggregate of nations a commonwealth.
出自:Burke