legation

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The embassy was downgraded to a legation.
大使館降為公使館。
It was Grazia, no longer in love with him and married to a secretary of the Austrian legation.
這時她已經(jīng)不跟他相愛而嫁給了奧地利公使館的一位秘書。
In January 1919 he was identified by the Swedish authorities as a Bolshevik and deported with the Russian legation.
在1919年二月他被瑞典政權(quán)認(rèn)定為布爾什維克分子，和俄國使館一起被驅(qū)逐出境。

At age 26 he was appointed Minister to the Netherlands, then promoted to the Berlin Legation.
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The American legation was taken from Berlin by special train to the town of Bad Nauheim, where it was interned, incommunicado, under the supervision of the Gestapo.
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Perhaps because the U.S. is a country which places less emphasis on big government and more on business the U.S. legation is a relatively small affair, tucked away on the 4th floor of a non-descript building in Perth.
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a group of officials who represent their government in a foreign country but who have less importance than an embassy

A legation is a group of government officials and diplomats who work in a foreign country and represent their government in that country.
A legation is the building in which a legation works.