Hints United States Old World
The United States is at once a very new nation and a very old nation. It is a new nation compared with many other countries, and it is new, too, in the sense that it is constantly being renewed by the addition of new elements of population and of new States. But in other senses it is old. It is the oldest of the "new" nations--the first one to be made out of an Old World colony. It has the oldest written constitution, the oldest continuous federal system, and the oldest practice of self-government of any nation.
美國(guó)是一個(gè)即年輕又古老的國(guó)家,一個(gè)與很多國(guó)家相比很年輕的國(guó)家.同時(shí),它因新人口的成份和新州的加入而持續(xù)更新,在此意義上,它也是新國(guó)家.但另一方面它是最古老的年輕國(guó)家——第一個(gè)從舊大陸殖民中脫胎而生的國(guó)家，它有最古老的成文法規(guī)、最古老的持續(xù)的聯(lián)邦體系、最古老的自治政府慣例。