美国各州别名.docVIP

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 in 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 final 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 resources 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 Golden State.(金州) You would think Colorado would be known as the Rocky Mountain State. But its nickname is the Centennial State.(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 Yankees, 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 Constitution. 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 sweete