State of the Union

基本解释

In an interview on CNN's State of the Union program, he reflected on the significance of the moment.
奥巴马在接受美国有限新闻网国情咨文节目采访时，反思了这个时刻的重要性。
Every year we used the State of the Union as an organizing tool for the cabinet and staff to come up with new policy ideas, and then we worked hard on how best to present them.
每年国情咨文都被内阁和幕僚们作为我们提出新政策思路的一个组织工具，然后我们努力下功夫，让它们以最佳方式呈现在人们面前。
Even though, it had dropped to 19% by 1964, when he made a State of the Union address setting out his hopes for the Great Society, it was still embarrassingly high for a country as wealthy as the US.
虽然这个数字在1964年的时候降至19%，但这对于像美国这样富足的国家来说依然高得令人尴尬，也就在这一年，林登·约翰逊在进行国情咨文演讲的时候提出了他的“伟大社会”的期许。
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a speech that the President of the United States gives to Congress every year about the achievements and plans of the government

A State of the Union speech or address is a speech, given once a year, in which the president of the United States talks about the current political issues that affect the country as a whole and about his plans for the year ahead.