（移民的）故国；古老的国家；故土

Gods countries───诸神国

hill countries───丘陵地；丘陵地带

home countries───祖国；原籍国

host countries───东道国

cow countries───母牛国

low countries───低地国家（指荷兰，比利时，卢森堡）

old country───（移民的）故国；古老的国家；故土

donor countries───援助国

back countries───偏远地区

You know, dears, in the old countries there are many fine stories about things which happened so very long ago that nobody knows exactly how much of them is true.───朋友们，你们都知道，在那些古老的王国里总流传着很多传奇故事。 这些故事流传了很久很久 以至于没有人知道这些故事当中哪些真的发生过。

Free images can also be old and if countries want a certain image it may well be outside the remit of free data access, so they have to pay for a satellite to take it.───免费的图像也可能是陈旧的，如果各国想要某些特定的图像，它很可能在免费数据获取的范围之外，因此它们不得不付费让卫星拍摄这样的图像。

It is an old question: why are some countries rich and others poor?───这是一个古老的问题：为什么有些国家富裕，而有些国家贫穷呢？

Most old countries have had agrarian disputes between landlords and tenants .───在大多数古老国家内，地主和佃农间都曾经有过土地纠纷。