statehood

noun

1. 独立国家地位
   the fact of being an independent country and of having the rights and powers of a country
2. 州（或邦）的地位
   the condition of being one of the states within a country such as the US or Australia
   1. West Virginia was granted statehood in 1863.
      西弗吉尼亚于1863年获准成为一个州。

1. 独立国家地位
   Statehood is the condition of being an independent state or nation.

1. Taylor urged settlers in New Mexico and California to draft constitutions and apply for statehood, bypassing the territorial stage.
   Taylor敦促新墨西哥和加利福尼亚起草宪法，并进行运用，越过领土问题。
2. The thorny issue of Palestinian statehood will top the agenda when hawkish Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu sits down with President Barack Obama at the White House.
   棘手的巴勒斯坦建国议题将会成为鹰派总理内塔尼亚胡与奥巴马总统在白宫坐下会谈时的首要议题。
3. With the ecstatic crowd chanting his name Putin warned against people who wanted to destroy Russias statehood and usurp power.
   欢腾的支持者们欢呼着普京的名字。普京警告那些妄图破坏俄罗斯国家地位和篡夺政权的分子阴谋不会得逞。
4. The rising swell of opinion pushing the international community towards formal recognition of Palestinian statehood at the UN can be traced directly to the headlong expansion of illegal Israeli settlements in the occupied West Bank.
   高涨的舆论正将国际社会推向在联合国正式承认巴勒斯坦的国家地位，这些舆论可直接归因于以色列在其占领的约旦河西岸急速扩建非法定居点。
5. I will vote on September 18, but my choice will not be decided by any particular passion for statehood, British or Scottish.
   我会在9月18日那天投票，但我的选择将不会由我对某个国家（无论是英国还是苏格兰）的热爱所决定。
6. Southern supporters were afraid that if a statehood bill for California was passed first, then northerners would refuse to pass the other parts of the compromise.
   南部支持者担心，如果加州的独立州法案首先通过，那么北方人将会拒绝通过妥协案的其他部分。
7. We are definitely moving in the direction of statehood, but it will not be declared in 2014.
   我们正在迈向建国的方向，这一点毫无疑问，但我们不会在2014年宣布独立。
8. Vladimir Putin yesterday provoked new fears that he is seeking the partition of Ukraine by calling for talks on statehood for the rebellious southeast of the country.
   弗拉基米尔•普京（VladimirPutin）昨日引发有关他在推动分裂乌克兰的新的担忧，因为他呼吁就该国叛逆的东南部的国家地位问题举行谈判。
9. In 2009 he was elected on a platform rejecting Palestinian statehood, and his cabinet is populated with politicians who want to control the West Bank for ever.
   2009年，内塔尼亚胡凭借施政方针中反对巴勒斯坦建国的内容当选以色列总理。他的内阁中有大量想要永远控制约旦河西岸的政治家。
10. Israel cannot survive as a Jewish state unless Palestinians are given statehood.
    除非巴勒斯坦人得到国家地位，否则以色列就无法作为犹太人国家生存。
11. China's parliament passed an Anti-Secession Law in March last year, authorising war if the island formally declared statehood.
    第二，《反国家分裂法》说了台湾正式宣布独立的时候才授权战争，现在阿扁离正式宣布还差得远！
12. Normative limits on collective forms of self-determination, including sovereign statehood, can thus be derived from very limited or weak assumptions of universal features of human beings;
    因此，群体自决形式的规范性限度能够溯源于在人性的普遍特征上非常有限或非常弱的假设；
13. A good two-thirds of the UN's193 members will vote for Palestinian statehood.
    联合国193个成员国中超过三分之二将投票支持巴勒斯坦进入联合国。
14. Israelis were justifiably stunned by the almost total lack of European support for their position at the recent UN vote on Palestinian statehood.
    最近联合国就巴勒斯坦独立国家地位举行表决时，以色列的立场几乎完全失去了欧洲的支持，对此以色列人感到非常吃惊。
15. The Quartet called for a resumption of peace talks in a month, and a framework peace agreement on Palestinian statehood by the end of2012.
    中东问题四方集团敦促以巴双方在一个月内恢复和谈，并且在2012年年底之前，就巴勒斯坦的国家地位达成一项框架和平协议。
16. US President Barack Obama will urge his Palestinian counterpart Mahmoud Abbas to drop a bid for UN recognition of statehood later on Wednesday.
    本周三晚些时候，美国总统奥巴马将敦促巴勒斯坦总统阿巴斯放弃联合国承认其国家地位的要求。
17. For their part, the Palestinians, under European prodding, would agree not to use their new-won statehood to launch prosecutions against Israelis at the International Criminal Court.
    对他们来说，在欧洲的怂恿下，巴勒斯坦人将同意不使用他们的新荣获联合固席位发动针对以色列人的在国际刑事法院的检控。
18. Its desire for statehood and recognition by the international community has pitted Kosovo against Russia and Serbia.
    渴望独立以及得到国际社会认同的愿望将科索沃置于与俄罗斯和塞尔维亚对立的境地。
19. In1999 Yasser Arafat declared he would secure full statehood, but backed off when Mr Netanyahu blocked him.
    亚西尔阿拉法特在1999年宣布，他将获得完全的国家席位，但内塔尼亚胡阻止他时退却了。
20. And in a BBC interview, the US ambassador to the UN Susan Rice said a unilateral bid for statehood would set back prospects for real talks.
    而在BBC的一次采访中，美国驻联合国大使赖斯（SusanRice）称，单方面申请成为独立的国家将使进行真正的对话的前景遭到挫败。
21. Thus far, the Palestinian right to statehood has not loomed large in the uprisings.
    迄今巴勒斯坦人建国的权利并没有在民变中成为重要诉求。
22. But northern states opposed statehood for Texas.
    但北部各州反对为得克萨斯州建州。
23. After the war, Alaskans were more serious than ever about statehood.
    战后，阿拉斯加人比以前更重视州的地位。
24. But several member states, including the United States, have said the only road to statehood goes through peace talks.
    可是，包括美国在内的几个成员国表示，成为正式成员国的唯一途径是通过和平谈判。
25. Neither Cairo nor Jordan is willing to take responsibility for the Palestinians or deprive them of their dreams of statehood.
    开罗和约旦都既不愿对巴勒斯坦人负责，也不想剥夺他们建国的梦想。
26. But for many people in Serbia the idea of Kosovo slipping formally away into independent statehood remains an anathema.
    但是对塞尔维亚的许多人而言，科索沃悄悄地正式走向独立依然令人憎恶。
27. Statehood can be granted only when the majority population of at least one of the provinces in the state is your national culture.
    当一地区中至少一省的大部分人口是你的国家文化的话，该地区获得州的地位。
28. It would confine the remaining millions to a rump area, where they would exist without statehood or political rights.
    其余数百万人将被限制在一块残留区，这些人将没有国籍和政治权利。
29. Abbas was anxious to end the schism as he tries to get the United Nations to back Palestinian statehood ( 4) in September.
    由于阿巴斯正尝试让联合国在今年9月支持巴勒斯坦的国家地位，故相当渴望能终结境内分歧。
30. Returning to the West Bank from New York, Abbas told jubilant crowds that a "Palestinian Spring" has begun with the bid for statehood.
    阿巴斯已经从纽约回到约旦河西岸，他对欣喜若狂的群众说，“巴勒斯坦的春天”在寻求建国下展开了。