nation team

The competition only happens every four years, and the last time the team went, they won the third place in the nation.

这个比赛每四年举行一次。上次这个队去参赛的时候，他们获得了全国第三名。

No host nation has failed to reach the second round and South Africa’s national team, Bafana Bafana, which won the African Nations Cup in 1996, will stumble through on home support.

历届东道主均进入第二轮淘汰赛，曾于1996年夺得非洲国家杯冠军，素有“小伙子南非”之称的南非国家队在家乡的支持下将一路坎坷前行。

One of the reasons cross-country was so beneficial for me was that our team was consistently one of the best teams in the nation.

使我受益的原因之一是我们的越野队一贯被认为是国家最棒的越野队。