N-SING The body politic is all the people of a nation when they are considered as a complete political group. 全国人民 [正式] [usu 'the' N]
...the king was the head of the body politic.
...国王曾是全国人民的首领。
Jefferson, says Mr Gore, was right: "Rousseau said the body politic is a moral being possessed of a will."
戈尔先生说:“杰弗逊是正确的。”‘卢梭说过,国家是支配意志的道德’。
In the eyes of all reformers such as Plato, the "body politic" could not operate without interference from the top.
在所有的改革者(比如柏拉图)看来,没有来自上层的干预,国家将无以为继。
Its very existence represents a shift in the way news and information course through our overserved body politic.
它的存在代表着一种转变——我们这个国家信息泛滥,而新闻和信息流经它的方式正在发生转变。
"The blunt reality is that there will be dwindling appetite and patience in the US Congress -- and in the American body politic writ large -- to expend increasingly precious funds on behalf of nations that are apparently unwilling to devote the necessary resources or make the necessary changes to be serious and capable partners in their own defense."
VOA: special.2011.06.11
This is a recurring rhetoric, this notion that there is a cancer in the body politic.
这是一种经常反复出现的修辞,这个国家的政治体系是有潜在的危险的。
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