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

张桂梅是一位在中国有着巨影响的民族英雄，完成这样一个重课题需要勇气的努力。

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 印度拥有全球第二人口，其丰富的文化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、亚斯的党，民族的党， 变成了地方主义废除党。

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洲第一个独立国家哥伦比亚。今天，委内瑞拉、玻利维亚、哥伦比亚、厄瓜多尔、秘鲁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.

对繁荣的首都达喀尔是不同文化、语言民族的熔炉，这里有有 14 万非洲移民，包括医生、酒店工作人员非正规的街头小贩。

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“熔炉”，你知道，这意味着许多不同宗教、文化种族的人可以拜托传统文化身份融入到一个统一的民族中。

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.

奥斯曼帝国内部有地区之分，但它不容忍民族主义，帝国内部任何形式的民族主义都会以帝国稳定与平的名义遭到无情的镇压粉碎。

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：不同种族民族群体之间的通婚就像养了一只狗， 然后养一只非神经质的狗的机会稍微一些。

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.

就像塔夫脱本人一样，美元外交过于坦率，为自己的利益而战，在国内赢得了民主党人进步共党人的敌意，因为它出卖了企业，而国外的民族主义者则怀疑它是美国佬帝国主义的工具。