They are afraid of losing their national identity.

他们担心会失去他们的民族特色。

The president alone betokened the national identity.

总统一人就代表了国家形象。

The revival of the language, particularly among young people, is part of a resurgence of national identity sweeping through this small, proud nation.

语言的复兴，尤其是在年轻人当中的复兴，是席卷这个自豪的小国的民族认同感复苏的一部分。

Race has functioned as something necessary to the construction of American character and quality in the creation of our national identity—American has been defined as "white".

在创造我们民族身份的过程中，种族对于美国人性格和品质的塑造起了至关重要的作用——美国人被定义为“白人”。

These national identity crises are nothing new.

国家认同危机不新鲜。

The result could be a profound national identity crisis.

其结果很有可能造成一个深刻的民族认同的危机。

So, will soccer one day be part of our national identity?

那么，足球有一天会成为我们美国的文化认同的一部分吗？

The row underlines Macedonia's still-fragile national identity.

这次争执的内容是关于马其顿依旧脆弱的国家身份。

Do you tire of the questions around your national identity?

关于国民同一性的问题你是否感到困扰？

Globalization does not necessarily mean the loss of their national identity.

全球化并不意味着民族身份的丧失。

But the French are touchy because theirs is so much an emblem of national identity.

然而，将法语视作国民身份象征的法国人偏偏又敏感的很。

Since 1945, Japan's national identity has been tied up with economic primacy in Asia.

1945年以来，日本的国家认同一直与其在亚洲的经济地位紧密联系。

What it lacks in dynamism it makes up for in placidity and a common national identity.

它的平静和共同的国民认同感弥补了其活力的不足。

Her national identity card, she said, had been changed to reflect the false birth-date.

她说她的身份证上的出生日期被改了。

They were part of the great Elizabethan project for an English Protestant national identity.

此乃伊丽莎白伟大计划之组成，英格兰从此不再屈从教会指令，而新教自此得到国家认同。

With that glue now dissolving, the traditional concept of national identity is falling apart.

当胶水开始溶解时，传统民族本体的观念就开始瓦解了。

The more sophisticated a product or service is, the more its national identity tends to disappear.

一个产品或一项服务愈是高端，国家的概念愈是淡化。

It was used to create a national identity, and it worked, because all of us spoke Bahasa Indonesia.

印度尼西亚文过去被用来产生一个民族身份，它确实也起到了这样的作用，因为我们都说印度尼西亚文了。

On the most popular web sites, anyone Posting comments must register with their national identity number.

在很多流行的网站上，任何发表评论的人都必须用他本人的身份证注册。

The demand, really, is for a celebratory history: how otherwise could it serve as the cement of national identity?

这样的要求实际上是在呼唤一种满是庆祝的历史：否则它如何能成为民族认同感的基石？

But those who are involved in and support bullfighting see it as a unique Spanish tradition and part of their national identity.

但是支持斗牛运动的人把这项活动看作独特的西班牙传统以及国家身份认同的一部分。

What lies at the root of all this is a profound division of opinion over what constitutes, or should constitute, national identity.

所有这些问题的根源是一种意义深远的关于民族认同感由何组成或者应该由何组成的意见分歧。

This pact was thought at the time to be an interim compromise, necessary until Lebanon formed its own sense of a national identity.

当时，该公约被认为是过渡性的妥协，直到黎巴嫩后来有了国家概念的时候才显得必要了。

Increasingly, Germans have put the guilt of the past behind them, reasserting their pride in national identity in many positive ways.

渐渐地，德国人将过去的罪责抛之脑后，以许多正面的方式，重新宣扬他们民族个性的优良。

Describing a time when national identity mattered less than it does now, some mention of schools elsewhere in Christendom would have been welcome.

描述一个国家认同不如当今这样重要的时代，如果能适当提及基督世界里其他地方的学校将会更受好评。