country/kingdom/nation/realm/state.导航词义：国家

1. country:n. 国家.最普通用词，侧重指国土、疆域。

China is a large country.

中国是一个幅员辽阔的国家。

Labour export is very common in developing countries.

劳务输出在发展中国家非常普遍。

2. kingdom:n. 王国.指由国王或女王统治的国家，或君主立宪的国家。

The United Kingdom consists of Great Britain and Northern Ireland.

联合王国由大不列颠和北爱尔兰组成。

The king is the most important person in a kingdom.

国王是王国中最重要的人物。

3. nation:n. 国家.强调其民族、社会及经济结构。

Greece is an independent nation.

希腊是一个独立国家。

New Zealand is an English speaking nation.

新西兰是一个讲英语的国家。

America is one of the world's leading industrial nations.

美国是世界上的主要工业国之一。

4. realm:n. 王国.与 kingdom 基本同义，但多用于正式文体。

the defence of the realm

王国的防卫

The king sought to expand his realm.

国王谋求扩大领土。

5. state:n. 国家，政府.侧重指被视为政治组织的国家，英国英语中尤指政府。

an EU member state

欧盟成员国

Should railways be controlled by the state?

铁路应该由国家控制吗？

The state has set up a medical subsidy program for civil servants.

政府为公务员建立了医疗补助制度。

全部

1·Militarists ran the country.

军国主义者把持这个国家。《牛津词典》

2·He entered the country illegally.

他通过非法途径进入了这个国家。《牛津词典》

3·Australia's a big country.

澳大利亚是一个幅员辽阔的国家。《柯林斯英汉双解大词典》

4·The country is in ferment.

这个国家动荡不安。《牛津词典》

5·I'm a simple country girl.

我是一个普普通通的乡村姑娘。《牛津词典》

6·The country is now at war.

这个国家正在打仗。《牛津词典》

7·The country was ruined by the war.

这个国家因战争而遭到严重破坏。《牛津词典》

8·We live in a multinational country.

我们生活在一个多民族的国家。《柯林斯英汉双解大词典》

9·The country was mired in recession.

这个国家陷入了经济衰退的困境。《牛津词典》

10·They rode along narrow country lanes.

他们骑马走在狭窄的乡村小路上。《牛津词典》

国家

1·Militarists ran the country.

军国主义者把持这个国家。《牛津词典》

2·The country's economy is in shreds.

国家经济已是百孔千疮。《牛津词典》

3·The country is in ferment.

这个国家动荡不安。《牛津词典》

4·He entered the country illegally.

他通过非法途径进入了这个国家。《牛津词典》

5·The country was mired in recession.

这个国家陷入了经济衰退的困境。《牛津词典》

乡村

1·I'm a simple country girl.

我是一个普普通通的乡村姑娘。《牛津词典》

2·They rode along narrow country lanes.

他们骑马走在狭窄的乡村小路上。《牛津词典》

3·She led a tranquil life in the country.

她过着恬静的乡村生活。《牛津词典》

4·He enjoyed the tranquillity of country life.

他很享受乡村生活的宁静。《柯林斯英汉双解大词典》

5·Soon we were bowling along the country roads.

我们不久便在乡村的公路上疾驰了。《牛津词典》

国

1·This is fen country – the mills drive pumps that drain the land.

这是一个沼泽国 - 这些工厂启动水泵排干地面积水。《柯林斯英汉双解大词典》

2·The president saluted the courage of those who had fought for their country.

总统对那些为国战斗者的英勇精神表示敬意。《牛津词典》

3·It's not easy having a relationship when you live at opposite ends of the country.

人虽同国却各处东西；在这种情况下相好，谈何容易。《牛津词典》

4·Over half the people interviewed expressed their readiness to die for their country.

半数以上接受采访的人都表示愿意为国献身。《牛津词典》

5·In 1992 outlaw fishing boats began illegally harvesting lobsters from the territorial waters of the country of Belukia.

1992年，非法渔船开始在贝鲁基亚国的领海非法捕捞龙虾。

国度

1·South Africa is a beautiful country.

南非是一个美丽的国度。

2·At midnight the wagon passes here that is to take us within the boundaries of that marvelous country.

半夜的时候，马车会经过这里，把我们带到那个神奇国度的。

3·One should travel out of his own country at least once.

我们至少应该离开自己的国度去旅行一次。

4·I still do not understand why it is impossible, in this country, to talk about someone without mentioning their salary, the cost of their car, the value of their house.

我至今仍弄不明白，为何在这样的一个国度中，谈论一个人时不谈论他的收入，他的车值多少，他房屋的价值是几乎不可能的。

5·I knew I wanted to save horses and live in the country, she says.

她说：“我只知道想要挽救那些马，让他们好好生活在这个国度。”

农村

1·For the first time in history, more people live in towns than in the country.

城镇居住人口有史以来第一次超过了农村居住人口。

2·The move from living in the country to cities like London led to people struggling to cope with the huge change from their simple country lives of old.

人们从农村迁移到类似伦敦一样的城市，必须面对从简单乡村生活过渡到城市生活的巨大变化。

3·On a conservative estimate, food-price rises may reduce the spending power of the urban poor and country people who buy their own food by 20% (in some regions, prices are rising by far more).

保守的估计，粮食价格的上涨将城市的贫穷人口与农村人口的购买力减少20%(在一些地区，价格上涨更高)。

4·Representation of town and country, and North and South was unfair.

城镇和农村，北方和南方的代表权极不平等。

5·Suburbs and country areas are, in many ways, even more vulnerable than well-patroled urban streets.

在许多方面，郊区和农村甚至比巡查严密的城市街道更易受到攻击。

乡下

1·He lives quietly in the country in a village near Lahti.

他在乡下拉赫蒂附近的一个村庄里过着平静的生活。《柯林斯英汉双解大词典》

2·I sent my other son to the country to stay with kinfolk.

我把另一个儿子送到乡下和亲戚住在一起。《柯林斯英汉双解大词典》

3·Sam was born in the country and had a deep affinity with nature.

萨姆在乡下出生，特别喜爱大自然。《牛津词典》

4·He was a country boy who had joined the army out of a sense of patriotism and adventure.

他是个乡下小伙子，出于爱国心和冒险精神参了军。《柯林斯英汉双解大词典》

5·This country's fields, I remember!

这乡下的田，我记住了！

乡间

1·He lives right out in the country.

他住在远离此地的乡间。《牛津词典》

2·A headless rider haunts the country lanes.

一个无头骑士常出没于乡间的小路上。《牛津词典》

3·I prefer the relaxed pace of life in the country.

我喜爱乡间那悠闲的生活节奏。《牛津词典》

4·He spent yesterday hidden away in his country retreat.

他躲在乡间的休养地度过了昨天。《柯林斯英汉双解大词典》

5·Many country towns were still living in blissful ignorance of the post-war crime wave.

很多乡间小镇对战后的犯罪潮一无所知，依然生活在无忧无虑中。《柯林斯英汉双解大词典》

国民

1·They have the support of most of the country.

他们有大多数国民的支持。《牛津词典》

2·The rich benefited from the reforms, not the country as a whole.

富人而不是全体国民得益于这些改革。《牛津词典》

3·Entertaining is something that everyone in the country can enjoy, she averred.

“娱乐是每个国民都能享受的事，”她肯定地说。《柯林斯英汉双解大词典》

4·Mr Hodson complains that it would mean that the essence of a country's community life found in its family laws is removed and replaced by the laws of another country.

霍德森(Hodson)抱怨道，这可能意味着“本国国民发现自己的家庭法律没有了，取而代之的是其它国家的法律。”

5·In 2008, melamine-tainted milk powder killed at least six infants and sickened 300,000 children across the country, which led to consumers in China losing faith in the country's diary industry.

在二〇〇八年，三聚氰胺奶案令至少全国六名婴儿死亡，三十万孩童染疾，导致国民不再信任国产奶品。

国土

1·The Reindeer and the young hind leaped along beside them, and accompanied them to the boundary of the country.

驯鹿和小母鹿在他们身边蹦蹦跳跳地走着，陪着他们走到国土的边界。

2·For him, as for so many of the Victorian era, the place to emulate and admire was that country in the making - Germany.

对于他来说，到目前为止，如此多的维多利亚时期的事物，这些被效仿，被赞美的地方是那些在德国国土上出现的。

3·And then he had to convince her to go back with him to a country she'd never been to and marry a complete stranger.

最后，他得说服她和他一起返回那个她从未去过的国土并且和他这样一个陌生人结婚。

4·Desert takes up some 95% of the country, but the fertile remainder, albeit fractured into millions of smallholdings, has become much more productive.

沙漠约占埃及国土面积95%，但其肥沃的土地，尽管碎成了数百万个小农场，已经变得越来越高产了。

5·Once Russian troops go, the anger of ordinary Georgians at the catastrophe that has befallen their country may yet turn on the man who got them into this mess.

一旦俄军撤退，格鲁吉亚老百姓面对降临国土的这场灾难心中怒火难息，也许就会发泄到招惹这场灾难的人身上。

(1)in the country在乡下

(1)developing country发展中国家

(1)developed countryn. 发达国家

(1)across the country遍布全国；祖国各地

(1)all over the country遍及全国

(1)foreign country外国；异国