Zhang Guimei is a national hero with a tremendous influence in China, and tackling such a significant subject takes courage and considerable efforts.

张桂梅是位在中国有着巨大影响的民族英雄，完成这样个重大课题需要勇气和相当大的努力。

India India has the second-largest population globally, and its rich culture and history are reflected  today in its multiethnic, multilingual society.

2. 印度 印度拥有全球二大人口，其丰富的文化和历史在今天的多民族、多语言社会中得到了体现。

By a strange turn of fortune's wheel, the party of Hamilton, Washington, Adams, the party of the grand nation, became the party of provincialism and nullification.

——由于命运之轮的奇怪转动， 汉密尔顿、华盛顿、亚当斯的党，大民族的党， 变成了义和废除党。

In 1819, he founded and led Gran Colombia, the  first independent country in South America. Today Venezuela, Bolivia, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru,   and Panama consider him their national hero.

1819 ，他创立并领导了南美个独立国家大哥伦比亚。今天，委内瑞拉、玻利维亚、哥伦比亚、厄瓜多尔、秘鲁和巴拿马将他视为他们的民族英雄。

The relatively prosperous capital of Dakar — whose roughly 140,000 African immigrants range from doctors to hospitality staff to informal street vendors — is a melting pot of different cultures, languages, and nationalities.

相对繁荣的首都达喀尔是不同文化、语言和民族的大熔炉，这里有大约有 14 万非移民，包括医生、酒店工作人员和非正规的街头小贩。

Well, at one time, the U.S. was called a melting pot, you know, which means that people of many different religions, cultures and races could shed their traditional cultural identities and blend into one homogeneous nation.

嗯，美国曾经被称为“大熔炉”，你知道，这意味着许多不同宗教、文化和种族的人可以拜托传统文化身份融入到个统的民族中。

The Ottoman Empire had regions within it but it had no tolerance for nations and nationalism within the Empire of any kind was always ruthlessly repressed and crushed in the name of Greater Imperial stability and peace.

奥斯曼帝国内部有区之分，但它不容忍民族义，帝国内部任何形式的民族义都会以大帝国稳定与和平的名义遭到无情的镇压和粉碎。

There's also hybrid vigor: the idea that the intermarriage among different racial and ethnic groups is like getting a mutt dog and then having a slightly better chance of having a non-neurotic dog.

还有混合活力：不同种族和民族群体之间的通婚就像养了只狗， 然后养只非神经质的狗的机会稍微大些。

Like Taft himself, Dollar Diplomacy was too frank for its own good, earning the enmity of Democrats and progressive Republicans at home as a sellout to big business and the suspicion of nationalists abroad as a tool of Yankee imperialism.

就像塔夫脱本人样，美元外交过于坦率，为自己的利益而战，在国内赢得了民党人和进步共和党人的敌意，因为它出卖了大企业，而国外的民族义者则怀疑它是美国佬帝国义的工具。