nationhood

基本解释

Its leap into modernity took the form of a secular revolution; that differs from places like Ireland or Poland， where church and modern nationhood go together.
它通过长期变革完成到新式天主教的飞跃，这不同于像爱尔兰教会、波兰教会这些与其现代国家地位相符合的地区；
Any stable strategic system in Asia must take account of the fact that Japan cannot and should not be expected to forswear forever the strategic rights and responsibilities of nationhood.
亚洲地区任何稳定的战略体系都必须考虑一个事实，就是不可能也不应该要求日本永远放弃作为一个国家应有的战略权利和责任。
For these shortcomings, most of the blame should be laid at the door of the army, which claims, more than any other institution, to embody nationhood.
对于这些缺点，大部分应该归咎于军队，他们比其他任何制度都要高呼体现国家地位。

PDI-P, the mainstays of the Nationhood Coalition, do not have any ideological quarrels with the president.
ECONOMIST: Suck it and see
Its territory and wealth are greater, its population sparser, its sense of nationhood more fragile.
ECONOMIST: The Arab uprisings
Before independence in 1991, Kazakhstan had no history of separate nationhood, let alone entrepreneurship.
ECONOMIST: Still going strongman at 70

the fact of being a nation (= a country with its own government, language, traditions, etc.)