3原文及翻译The mid-Atlantic state of Marylandis 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. 地处大西洋中部的马里兰州被称为“自由之州”。二十世纪二十年代，美国禁止生产和销售酒类，马里兰州则称本州希望免受这一禁令的限制。一家巴尔的摩（美国的一座港市）的报纸为此率先称之为“自由之州”。
The Awakening Sculpture（Maryland） Mississippi is the Magnolia State. It is named for a tree with big, beautiful white flowers that grows in that hot, southern state.密西西比州别称为“木兰花之州”。这种树就生长在这片炎热的南方土地上，开出来的白色花朵又大又好看。
Mississippi 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.位于美国中西部的密苏里州又叫“索证之州”。该州地处边境，本地人以前非常出名，因为他们不相信别人说的任何话，总是一副“你拿出证据来啊”的傲娇姿态。
Missouri If you visit the western mountain and plains state of Montana you will know why it is known as Big Sky Country.你如果去过西部蒙大拿州的高山和平原，你就会明白为什么它得名“长空之州”了。
Montana 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.内布拉斯加州是一个以运动队来起别称的州。玉米是内布拉斯加州的主要农作物，而州立大学的运动队为此取名“玉米去壳专业户”。内布拉斯加州直接套用了这个别称。
Nebraska 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.”位于西部沙漠地区的内华达州别称为“白银之州”。这里曾经银矿云集，周围也建起了许多小城镇。不过现在，这些小城镇许多都已经变成了空荡荡的“鬼城”。
Nevada New Hampshire, in the northeast area called New England, is the Granite State because of that colorful rock.由于盛产五颜六色的花岗岩，位于东北部新英格兰地区的新罕布什尔州得名“花岗岩之州”。
New Hampshire 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以及宾夕法尼亚州的费城这两座大城市之间。新泽西州别称为 “花园之州”，因为这里的农场曾经向这些大城市运送蔬菜。
New Jersey 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.向来野心勃勃的纽约州，由于拥有丰富的自然资源而得名“帝国之州”。曼哈顿最出名的摩天大楼的名字就取自纽约州的别称。没错，就是大名鼎鼎的“帝国大厦”。
New York 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.如果你有机会去新墨西哥州，一睹基督圣血山脉落日余晖的美景，你就会明白为什么这个位于西南地区的州会被称为“魅力之州”。
New Mexico North and South Carolina were one colony until seventeen twenty-nine. 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. 南北卡罗莱纳州在1729年之前一直是殖民地。南卡罗莱纳州的别称相对简单。由于这里生长着扇形叶的棕榈树，南卡罗莱纳州得名“扇榈之州”。
South Carolina North Carolina is theTar 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.北卡罗莱纳州的别称为“焦油脚后跟之州”。当地许多采集树脂的人都光着脚。他们从树脂中提炼松节油，脚后跟就会沾上黏黏的黑色焦油。
