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1、A nickname is a shortened form of a persons name. A nickname can also be a descriptive name for a person, place or thing.Americas 50 states have some of the most historically interesting nicknames.Alabama is known as the Heart of Dixie(南部各州的中心) because it is in the very middle of a group of states i
2、n the Deep South. Dixie itself is a nickname for the American South. It started when Louisiana printed notes with the French word for ten on them. Deece, or D-I-X, led to Dixie.Way up north, Alaska is called the Last Frontier(最后的边疆) for understandable reasons. Near the Arctic Circle, it was the fina
3、l part of the nation to be explored and settled.Arizona is The Grand Canyon State(大峡谷之州) because of the famous winding canyon carved by the Colorado River. The southern state of Arkansas is the Land of Opportunity.(机会之乡) The state legislature chose this nickname. Arkansas is rich in natural resource
4、s and has become a favorite place for older people to retire.In a popular Spanish book, a fictional island called California was filled with gold. Sure enough, plenty of it was discovered in the real California, in 1848. This started a gold rush unlike any other in American history in the GoldenStat
5、e.(金州)You would think Colorado would be known as the RockyMountainState. But its nickname is the CentennialState.(百年之州) That is because it became a state in 1876, exactly 100 years after the nation declared its independence.Connecticut is called The Nutmeg State(豆蔻之州) after a spice. Connecticut Yank
6、ees, as people in this northeast state are called, are known to be smart in business. So smart that it was said they could sell wooden, meaning false, nutmegs to strangers.Little Delaware is called The First State(第一州) because it was the first state - the first to approve the new United States Const
7、itution. The Southern state of Florida likes to tell about its sunny days and fine beaches. So Florida is The Sunshine State.(阳光之州) Floridas neighbor to the north grows some of the sweetest fruit in America. So Georgia is The Peach State.(桃树州)Hawaii, far out in the Pacific Ocean, is the AlohaState.(
8、爱洛哈之州) That is the friendly greeting that means both hello and goodbye in the native Hawaiian language. Idaho is known as The Gem State.(宝石州) This is not because it has diamonds but because it believes it is the jewel of the western Rocky Mountains. Illinois is The Land of Lincoln.(林肯之地) It is named
9、 for Abraham Lincoln, the 16th president who led the nation through the Civil War in the 1860s. The midwestern state of Indiana is called the Hoosier State,(胡希尔之州) but nobody is quite sure why. One story is that the word was used to mean poor farmers or uneducated people. No wonder the state legisla
10、ture instead calls Indiana The Crossroads of America.(美国的十字路) Iowas nickname, the Hawkeye State,(鹰眼之州) is in honor of Black Hawk, an Indian chief who spent most of his life in neighboring Illinois!Kansas also has a hawkish nickname: The JayhawkState.(笨鹰之州) Jayhawkers were free-state guerrilla fighte
11、rs opposed to the pro-slavery fighters in the years before the Civil War. Kentucky is The Bluegrass State.(蓝草州) Bluegrass is really bright green but looks bluish from a distance. Louisiana is The Bayou State.(河口之州) A bayou is a slow-moving stream. Hundreds of them flow through this southern state, a
12、nd many are full of alligators!Maine, in the nations northeast, is The Pine Tree State(凤梨州) because it is covered in evergreen woods. And directly across the country, on the PacificCoast, is the state of Washington. It also has lots of evergreen trees so, not surprisingly, it is The Evergreen State.
13、(常青之州) The eastern state of Massachusetts is the BayState.(河口之州) This body of water separates most of the state from famous Cape Cod. Six state nicknames are taken from native animals. Michigan is the WolverineState.(貂熊州) A wolverine is a small, fierce mammal. The badger is a similar and equally fie
14、rce creature and Wisconsin is The Badger State.(美洲獾之州)Neighboring Minnesota, The Gopher State,(地鼠州) is named for a much nicer animal that builds hills and tunnels. However, The Land of Ten Thousand Lakes(万湖之地) is written on Minnesotas vehicle license plates. North Dakota gets its nickname, The Flick
15、ertail State(金翼啄木鸟尾之州) not from some bird, but from a little squirrel. South Dakota takes its nickname, The Coyote State,(山狗之州) from an animal that thinks flickertails are good to eat!And Oregon, The Beaver State,(海狸之州) borrows its nickname from the large, flat-tailed rodent that uses trees to build
16、 dams.The mid-Atlantic state of Maryland is called The Free State(自由之州). A Baltimore newspaper first called it that during the 1920s when the manufacture and sale of alcohol were banned for a time. Maryland said it wanted to be free from this prohibition. Mississippi is The Magnolia State(木兰之州). It is named for a tree with big, beautiful white flowers that grows in that ho
