美国五十个州别名

1、阿肯色(Arkansas): 机会之乡(Land of Opportunity)
The southern state of Arkansas is the Land of Opportunity. The state legislature chose this nickname. Arkansas is rich in natural resources and has become a favorite place for older people to retire.
位于南部的阿肯色州被称为机会之乡(Land of Opportunity)。

该州的立法机关确立了这个别名。

阿肯色州自然资源丰富，现已成为老年人退休的最好去处。

2、阿拉斯加(Alaska): 最后的边疆(the Last Frontier)
Way up north, Alaska is called the Last Frontier for understandable reasons. Near the Arctic Circle, it was the final part of the nation to be explored and settled.
向北看，阿拉斯加州由于可以理解的原因，被称为最后的边疆（The Last Frontier）。

它靠近北极圈，是美国拓疆的最后一块国土。

3、爱达荷(Idaho): 宝石州(Gem State)
Idaho is known as the Gem State. This is not because it has diamonds but because it believes it is the jewel of the western Rocky Mountains.
爱达荷州被称为“宝石州”。

这并非是因为该州盛产钻石，而是因为该州认为自己是落基山西部山脉上的一颗明珠。

4、北达科他(North Dakota): 摇尾鼠州(Flickertail State)
North Dakota gets its nickname, the Flickertail State not from some bird, but from a little squirrel.
北达科他州得名“摇尾鼠州”并非源于一种同名的鸟，而是源自一种小松鼠。

5、北卡罗来纳(North Carolina): 焦油脚后跟州(Tar Heel State)
North Carolina is the Tar Heel State. That is because many of the men who worked to gather substances from trees wore no shoes. They would make turpentine from tar and get the black, sticky tar on the heels of their feet.
北卡罗莱纳被称为“焦油脚后跟之州”。

因为许多采集树脂的人都光着脚。

他们从树脂中提炼松节油，然后他们的脚后跟就会沾上黑色黏稠的焦油。

6、宾夕法尼亚(Pennsylvania): 基石州(Keystone State)
Pennsylvania's nickname is the Keystone State. Just as a keystone holds together a stone arch, Pennsylvania was seen as holding together the young American republic. Pennsylvania is also sometimes called the Quaker State. Its founder, William Penn, and most of his followers, were members of the Protestant Quaker religion.
宾夕法尼亚州的别名是“基石州”。

正如垒成牌坊的基石，宾夕法尼亚州被视为维系了年轻的美利坚共和国。

宾夕法尼亚州有时也被称为“贵格会之州”，宾夕法尼亚州开拓者创始人威廉
•佩恩和他的多数追随者是基督新教贵格会成员。

7、德克萨斯(Texas): 孤星州(Lone Star State)
Texas is called the Lone Star State. It gets its nickname from the single star on its flag. This represents the short time Texas was an independent nation battling Mexico for self-rule. 德克萨斯州被称为“孤星州”。

它得名自其旗帜上的一颗单独的恒星。

这代表着德克萨斯州作为一个独立国家抵抗墨西哥争取自治的短暂历史。

8、俄亥俄(Ohio): 七叶树州(Buckeye State)
The state of Ohio is in the midwest. It is named the Buckeye State after a tree that produces nuts similar to chestnuts.
中西部的俄亥俄州由于一种结着类似栗子的坚果的树被称为“七叶树州”。

9、俄克拉荷马(Oklahoma): 快些州(Sooner State)
The Great Plains state of Oklahoma is called the Sooner State. That is because of a sale of land in eighteen eighty-nine. Some people arrived in the territory to claim their land earlier than they were supposed to. They cheated and got there "sooner."
大平原的俄克拉荷马州被称为“快些州”。

这是因为1889年一块土地出售时，一些到达该州的人们慌称比他们实际到得更早。

他们蒙骗于是捷足先登。

10、俄勒冈(Oregon): 海狸州(Beaver State)
And Oregon, the Beaver State, borrows its nickname from the large, flat-tailed rodent that uses trees to build dams.
俄勒冈州别名“海狸州”，该州取名自海狸这种大型、平尾啮齿类、在树下筑坝的动物。

11、佛罗里达(Florida): 阳光州(Sunshine State)
The southern state of Florida likes to tell about its sunny days and fine beaches. So Florida is the Sunshine State.
位于南部的佛罗里达州喜欢描述它的阳光明媚和金黄沙滩。

所以佛罗里达也被称为“阳光州”(Sunshine State)。

12、佛蒙特(Vermont): 青山州(Green Mountain State)
The eastern state of Vermont is proud of its beautiful Green Mountains so it calls itself the Green Mountain State. The
东部的佛蒙特州因其美丽的青山而自豪，故自称为“青山州”。

13、弗吉尼亚(Virginia): 老自治州(the Old Dominion State)
The southern state of Virginia is called the Old Dominion.
南部的弗吉尼亚州被称为“老自治州”。

14、怀俄明(Wyoming):牛仔州(Cowboy State)
The western state of Wyoming was once an area where cattle were transported east. And where there are cattle, there are men -- and now women -- to move them. So Wyoming is the Cowboy State.
西部的怀俄明州曾经是往东部运牛的地区。

哪里有牛，哪里就有男人，现在还包括女人来运送它们。

因此怀俄明州被称为“牛仔州”。

15、华盛顿(Washington): 常青州(Evergreen State)
Washington has lots of evergreen treeso, not surprisingly, it is the Evergreen State.
华盛顿州有很多常青树，因为毫无疑问地被称为“常青州”。

16、加利福尼亚(California): 黄金州(Golden State)
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 eighteen forty-eight. This started a gold rush unlike any other in American history in the Golden State.
在一部流行的西班牙书籍中，一座名为"California"的虚构的岛屿遍布黄金。

1848年，现实存在的加利福尼亚州果然发现了大量黄金。

从此，“黄金州”(Golden State)加利福尼亚开始了美国历史上从未有过的淘金热。

17、堪萨斯(Kansas): 废奴游击州(Jayhawk State)
Kansas has a "hawkish" nickname: the Jayhawk State. Jayhawkers were free-state guerrilla fighters opposed to the pro-slavery fighters in the years before the Civil War.
堪萨斯州有个很“鹰派”的绰号：“废奴游击州”。

Jayhawkers是指“自由州”游击战士，他们在美国南北战争前的那些年抗击亲奴隶制战士。

18、康涅狄格(Connecticut): 肉豆蔻州(Nutmeg State)
Connecticut is called the Nutmeg State 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.
康涅狄格州因为一种香料被称为“肉豆蔻州” (Nutmeg State)。

身处美国东北部的康涅狄格人被称为Connecticut Yankees，因其生意方面的精明广为人知。

据说他们如此精明，以至于可以向陌生人成功兜售质量很差的肉豆蔻。

（注：肉豆蔻是一种香料）
19、科罗拉多(Colorado): 百年之州(Centennial State)
You would think Colorado would be known as the Rocky Mountain State. But its nickname
is the Centennial State. That is because it became a state in eighteen seventy-six, exactly one hundred years after the nation declared its independence.
你可能会认为科罗拉多州的别名是“落基山之州”(Rocky Mountain State)。

但是它的别名是“百年之州”(Centennial State)。

因为1876年科罗拉多成为美国一州的时候，刚好是美国宣布独立一百周年。

20、肯塔基(Kentucky): 蓝草州(Bluegrass State)
Kentucky is the Bluegrass State. Bluegrass is really bright green but looks bluish from a distance.
肯塔基州别名是“蓝草州”。

蓝草实际上是鲜绿色，但从远处看是浅蓝色。

21、路易斯安纳(Louisiana): 小河之州(Bayou State)
Louisiana is the Bayou State. A bayou is a slow-moving stream. Hundreds of them flow through this southern state, and many are full of alligators!
路易斯安那州别名是“小河之州”。

Bayou是指缓慢流动的小河流。

数百条小河流经这个南部州，并且大多数河中鳄鱼密布。

22、罗得岛(Phode Island): 小罗得(Little Rhody)
Rhode Island's nickname is Little Rhody because of its size. The state is smaller than the area around Los Angeles, California.
罗得岛州由于面积小被称为“小罗得”。

该州的面积比环洛杉矶地区还小。

23、马里兰(Maryland): 自由之州(Free State)
The mid-Atlantic state of Maryland is called the Free State. A Baltimore newspaper first called it that during the nineteen twenties when the manufacture and sale of alcohol were banned for a time. Maryland said it wanted to be free from this prohibition.
位于大西洋中部的马里兰州被称为“自由之州”。

巴尔的摩的一份报纸在20世纪20年代酒类生产销售被禁期间第一次这样称呼它。

当时马里兰州表示它想要摆脱这份禁酒令。

24、马萨诸塞(Massachusetts): 海湾州(Bay State)
The eastern state of Massachusetts is the Bay State. This body of water separates most of the state from famous Cape Cod.
东部的马萨诸塞州被成为“海湾州”。

海水将该州的大部分与著名的科德角半岛分隔开来。

25、蒙大拿(Montana): 长空之州(Big Sky State)
If you visit the western mountain and plain state of Montana you will know why it is known as Big Sky Country.
如果你游览一下西部的高山和草原之州蒙大拿，你就会明白它为什么被叫做“长空之州”。

26、密苏里(Missouri): 索证之州(Show-Me State)
The midwestern state of Missouri is called the Show Me State. The people of that frontier state were once famous for not believing everything people told them.
中西部的密苏里州被称为“索证之州”。

这个边境州的人们曾经因不相信别人告诉他们的任何事情而著名。

27、密西西比(Mississippi): 木兰州(Magnolia State)
Mississippi is the Magnolia State. It is named for a tree with big, beautiful white flowers that grows in that hot, southern state.
密西西比州被称为“木兰州”。

它以生长在密西西比这个炎热的南部州，盛开出美丽白花的木兰树命名。

28、密执安(Michigan): 貂熊州(Wolverine State)
Michigan is the Wolverine State. A wolverine is a small, fierce mammal.
密歇根州被称为“貂熊州”。

貂熊是一种小型，凶猛的哺乳动物。

29、缅因(Maine): 松树州(Pine Tree State)
Maine, in the nation's northeast, is the Pine Tree State because it is covered in evergreen woods.
缅因州位于美国东北部，被称为“松树州”。

因为该州被常绿森林覆盖。

30、明尼苏达(Minnesota): 金花鼠州(Gopher State)
Minnesota, the Gopher State, is named for a much nicer animal that builds hills and tunnels. However, the Land of Ten Thousand Lakes is written on Minnesota's vehicle license plates. 明尼苏达州被称为“金花鼠州”，它取名自这种非常有趣的打洞的动物。

然而，明尼苏达州的车牌上却写着“万湖之州”。

31、南达科他(South Dakota): 土狼州(Coyote State)
South Dakota takes its nickname, the Coyote State, from an animal that thinks flickertails are good to eat!
南达科他州别名“土狼州”，土狼是一种爱吃金花鼠的动物。

32、南卡罗来纳(South Carolina): 棕榈州(Palmetto State)
South Carolina's nickname is the easier of the two: It is the Palmetto State because of a fan-leafed palm tree that grows there.
南卡罗莱纳的别名相对来说比较简单，它被称为“棕榈州”，因为这里生长着许多扇形叶子的
棕榈树。

33、内布拉斯加(Nebraska): 玉米壳州(Cornhusker State)
Nebraska is the only state to have a nickname that honors sports teams! The state university's athletic teams are nicknamed Cornhuskers in recognition of one of the area's chief crops. The state borrowed the Cornhusker nickname from the university.
内布拉斯加州拥有唯一一个纪念运动队的别名。

该州州立大学的运动队别名叫做“剥玉米壳的人”，这是为了对该地区的一种主要作物玉米的肯定。

内布拉斯州借用了这个别名。

34、内华达(Nevada): 白银之州(Silver State)
The western desert state of Nevada is called the Silver State. It was once home to many silver mines and towns that grew up around them. Today, most of them are empty "ghost towns."
位于西部沙漠的内华达州被称为“白银之州”。

这里曾有很多银矿，围绕银矿周围诞生了很多小城镇。

如今，这些小城镇都成了空空的“鬼城”。

35、纽约(New York): 帝国州(Empire State)
New York, which always thinks big, was called the Empire State because of its natural wealth. The most famous Manhattan skyscraper got its name from the state. It is, of course, the Empire State Building.
在人们印象中纽约州规模很大，由于其自然资源被称为“帝国州”。

该州最注明的曼哈顿摩天大楼也因该州别名而得名“帝国大厦”。

36、特拉华(Delaware): 第一州(First State)
Little Delaware is called the First State because it was the first state -- the first to approve the new United States Constitution.
特拉华州被称为第一州(First State)，因为它是美国第一个通过美国新宪法的州。

37、田纳西(Tennessee): 志愿者之州(Volunteer State)
Tennessee got its nickname -- the Volunteer State -- because of the bravery of its citizens. They volunteered to join Tennessean Andrew Jackson to defend the city of New Orleans, Louisiana, against the British army in the War of Eighteen Twelve.
田纳西州由于其市民的英勇得名“志愿者之州”。

他们在1812年抵抗英军的战斗中，志愿加入田纳西人安德鲁•杰克逊(Andrew Jackson)的队伍保卫新奥尔良。

38、犹他(Utah): 蜂巢州(Beehive State)
The Beehive State of Utah has no more beehives than any other state. The nickname is from the Mormon Church's symbol for hard work.
“蜂巢州”犹他州并没有比其他州更多的蜂巢。

该别名来自摩门教辛勤工作的象征。

39、威斯康星(Wisconsin): 獾州(Badger State)
Wisconsin is the Badger State ,badger is a similar and equally fierce creature.
威斯康星被称为“獾州”,獾是一种类似貂熊且同样凶猛的动物。

40、西弗吉尼亚(West Virginia): 山颠之州(Mountain State)
West Virginia broke away from Virginia in the eighteen sixties. It is called simply the Mountain State for the ancient Appalachian mountains.
西弗吉尼亚州十九世纪六十年代脱离弗吉尼亚州。

它因古老的阿帕拉契山脉而被称为“山颠之州”。

41、夏威夷(Hawaii): 阿洛哈州(Aloha State)
Hawaii, far out in the Pacific Ocean, is the Aloha State. That is the friendly greeting that means both "hello" and "goodbye" in the native Hawaiian language.
远在太平洋的夏威夷别名是“阿洛哈州” (Aloha State)。

在夏威夷土语中，Aloha是一句问候语，具有“你好”和“再见”的双重意思。

42、新罕布什尔(New Hampshire): 花岗岩州(Granite State)
New Hampshire, in the northeast area called New England, is the Granite State because of that colorful rock.
位于东北部新英格兰地区的新罕布什尔州由于五颜六色的岩石被称为“花冈岩州”。

43、新墨西哥(New Mexico): 迷人之地(Land of Enchantment)
If you get a chance to see a red sunset over the Sangre de Cristo Mountains of New Mexico, you will know why that southwestern state is called the Land of Enchantment.
如果你有机会在新墨西哥州的基督圣血山脉观看红红的落日，你就会明白这个位于西南部的州为什么被称为“迷人之地”。

44、新泽西(New Jersey): 花园州(Garden State)
New Jersey is between the big cities of New York, New York and Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. It got its nickname, the Garden State, because New Jersey truck farms once provided vegetables to those big cities.
新泽西州位于纽约州的纽约市和宾夕法尼亚州的费城市之间。

新泽西州得名“花园之州”，因为新泽西州的菜圃曾经向这些大城市运送蔬菜。

（译者注：如果是因为运蔬菜的原因，就应该译为菜园之州）
45、阿拉巴马(Alabama): 狄西的心脏(Heart of Dixie)
Alabama is known as the Heart of Dixie 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."
阿拉巴马州被称为美国“南部各州的中心”(Heart of Dixie)，因为它地处美国最南部各州的正中心。

Dixie本身就是美国南部各州的别名。

当路易斯安那州印票据时，将法语表示10的单词Deece(D-I-X)印到票据上。

由Deece或D-I-X演变成了Dixie这个词。

(注：路易斯安那州曾是法国领地，后由美国购入。

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46、亚利桑那(Arizona): 大峡谷州(Great Canyon State)
Arizona is the Grand Canyon State because of the famous winding canyon carved by the Colorado River.
亚利桑那州(Arizona)被称为“大峡谷之州”(Grand Canyon)，这里拥有著名的由科罗拉多河雕刻成的蜿蜒的峡谷。

47、爱荷华(Iowa): 鹰眼州(Hawkeye State)
Iowa's nickname, the Hawkeye State, is in honor of Black Hawk, an Indian chief who spent most of his life in neighboring Illinois!
爱荷华州（又译为依阿华州）别名是“鹰眼州”，这是为了纪念在伊利诺伊州邻近奉献一生的印第安酋长黑鹰。

（注：印第安酋长“黑鹰”领导印第安人反抗白人屠杀。

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48、伊利诺斯(Illinois): 林肯之地(Land of Lincoln)
Illinois is the Land of Lincoln. It is named for Abraham Lincoln, the sixteenth president who led the nation through the Civil War in the eighteen sixties.
伊利诺伊州被称为“林肯之地”。

他取名自亚伯拉罕•林肯，这位美国第16任总统曾于19世纪60年代美国南北战争期间领导该州。

49、印第安纳(Indiana): 胡希尔州(Hoosier State)
The Midwestern state of Indiana is called the Hoosier State, 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 legislature instead calls Indiana the Crossroads of America.
美国中西部的印第安纳州被成为“胡希尔州”，但无人确切知道其由来。

有种说法是，胡希尔这个词指的是贫穷的农民或没受过教育的人。

难怪该州议会改称该州为“美国十字路口”。

50、佐治亚(Georgia):桃州(Peach State)
Georgia grows some of the sweetest fruit in America, so it is the Peach State.
佐治亚州种植了一些美国最甜的水果，因此被称为“桃州”(Peach State)。