美國50州的昵稱.ppt

1、Nickname for American states,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 fifty states have some of the most historically interesting nicknames.,Alabama is known as theHeart of Dixiebecause it is in the very middle

2、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 theLast Frontierfor understandable reasons. Near the Arctic Circle, i

3、t was the final part of the nation to be explored and settled.Arizona is theGrand Canyon Statebecause of the famous winding canyon carved by the Colorado River. The southern state of Arkansas is theLand of Opportunity. The state legislature chose this nickname. Arkansas is rich in natural resources

4、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 eighteen forty-eight. This started a gold rush unlike any other in American history in

5、 theGolden State.,Colorado（科羅拉多） its nickname is theCentennial State. That is because it became a state in eighteen seventy-six, exactly one hundred years after the nation declared its independence.Connecticut（康奈迪克州） is called theNutmeg Stateafter a spice. Connecticut Yankees, as people in this nort

6、heast 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 theFirst State because it was the first state - the first to approve the new United States Constitution.The southern state of Fl

7、orida likes to tell about its sunny days and fine beaches. So Florida is theSunshine State. Floridas neighbor to the north grows some of the sweetest fruit in America. So Georgia is thePeach State.,Hawaii, far out in the Pacific Ocean, is theAloha State. That is the friendly greeting that means both

8、 hello and goodbye in the native Hawaiian language. So, aloha for now. Next week we will tell you about the nicknames of more American states.,Idaho（愛達荷） is known as theGem State. This is not because it has diamonds but because it believes it is the jewel of the western Rocky Mountains.Illinois（伊利諾斯

9、州） is theLand of Lincoln. It is named for Abraham Lincoln, the sixteenth president who led the nation through the Civil War in the eighteen sixties.,The Midwestern state of Indiana is called theHoosier State, but nobody is quite sure why.One story is that the word was used to mean poor farmers or un

10、educated people. No wonder the state legislature instead calls Indiana theCrossroads of America.,Iowas （愛荷華）nickname, theHawkeye State, is in honor of Black Hawk, an Indian chief who spent most of his life in neighboring Illinois!Kansas also has a “hawkish” nickname: theJayhawk State（強盜）. Jayhawkers

11、 were free-state guerrilla fighters（打游擊） opposed to the pro-slavery fighters in the years before the Civil War.,Kentucky（肯塔基） is theBluegrass State. Bluegrass is really bright green but looks bluish from a distance. Louisiana is theBayou State（河流之州）. A bayou is a slow-moving stream. Hundreds of them

12、 flow through this southern state, and many are full of alligators!,Maine, in the nations northeast, is thePine Tree State（松樹）because it is covered in evergreen woods. And directly across the country, on the Pacific Coast, is the state of Washington. It also has lots of evergreen trees so, not surpr

13、isingly, it is theEvergreen State.The eastern state of Massachusetts is theBay State. This body of water separates most of the state from famous Cape Cod.,Michigan is theWolverine State狼獾州. A wolverine is a small, fierce mammal. The badger is a similar and equally fierce creature and Wisconsin威斯康星州

14、is theBadger State獾州.,Six state nicknames are taken from native animals.,Minnesota明尼蘇達州, theGopher State金花鼠州, is named for a much nicer animal that builds hills and tunnels. However, theLand of Ten Thousand Lakesis written on Minnesotas vehicle license plates.North Dakota北達科他州 gets its nickname, theFlickertail State搖尾巴州not from some bird, but from a little squirrel松鼠. South Dakota takes its nickname, theCoyote State土狼州, from an animal that thinks flickertails are good to eat!,And Oregon, theBeaver State海貍, borrows its nickname from the large, flat-tailed rodent t