政治实体：一个在单一政府权威下政治组织的人群。
body politic //
单数型名词 The body politic is all the people of a nation when they are considered as a complete political group. 全国人民
...the king was the head of the body politic.
...国王曾是全国人民的首领。
a politically organized body of people under a single government
同义词： state / nation / country / land / commonwealth / res publica
历经20世纪的动荡之后，通过事后观察可以发现，这一结构奠定了两千年之前一统文化和国家(body politic)的基础。 在这个世界上，没有其他体比中国存续得更为长久.
盎格鲁撒克逊平易近族国度（Bodypolitic）正在1066年被来自诺曼底的降服者威廉完全。威廉将其祖法律王法公法国的封建制度（Feudalsystem）带到英格兰。
... country 国家 body politic 国民 land 陆地 ...
The US body politic is perfectly prepared to ignore the debt implications of its stimulus actions.
美国人民已做好准备，罔顾其刺激行动在债务方面的影响。
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。
"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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The difference may be where the center of gravity of the body politic lies.
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They are purposely insulated from the immediate pressures and shifting currents of the body politic.
CNN: Transcript: White House Counsel Ruff's opening statement
And all these changes, all these challenges, inevitably cause some tension in the body politic.