美国50个州的简介 1

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This is "Every State in the US" by Wendover Productions and made possible by The Great Courses Plus. We'll start with Alabama, the first state alphabetically.

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这是文多弗制作公司制作的《美国的每一个州》，由the Great Courses Plus制作。我们从阿拉巴马开始，按字母顺序排列的第一个州。

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Magnolia Springs, Alabama is the only town in America to have their mail delivered by boat, although the longest mail delivery route in America is in rural Oklahoma, where delivery drivers have to drive 187.6 miles each day to delivery the mail to around 200 houses.

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阿拉巴马州的玉兰泉市是美国唯一一个用船投递邮件的城镇，不过美国最长的邮件投递路线是在俄克拉荷马州的农村，那里的快递司机每天必须开车187.6英里，才能将邮件送到大约200户人家。

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Oklahoma's state vegetable is the watermelon, which happens to be a fruit, and Oklahoma is also home to Kansas, the town, the real Kansas, or more specifically this point, is the geographic center of the contiguous United States.

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俄克拉荷马州的州蔬菜是西瓜，而西瓜恰好(也可以称)是一种水果，俄克拉荷马州也是堪萨斯州的所在地(紧挨着)，这个城镇，真正的堪萨斯州，或者更具体地说，是美国本土地理中心点。

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What Kansas is not home to is Kansas City which counterintuitively is in Missouri where the population center⁽¹⁾ of the US is, the average location of every American.

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堪萨斯不是堪萨斯城的所在地，与直觉相反，堪萨斯城位于密苏里州，那里是美国的人口中心点，是每个美国人的平均居住地。
⁽¹⁾美国最新的人口分布中心点，这个具有象征意义的地方，位于密苏里州南部中间的莱特县。这个点是这样决定的：想象整个美国是一个巨大的刚性平面，假设每个人的质量都一样，而且都站在普查时所在的地点，这个中心点正好使得平面得以平衡。

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Missouri borders eight states, and is therefore tied with Tennessee as the state that borders the most other states.

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密苏里州与八州接壤，因此与田纳西州并列，成为与其他州接壤最多的州。

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Tennessee was a southern state that seceded from the United States, and joined the confederacy except for Scott County which seceded from Tennessee and formed an unrecognized independent state. Scott County didn't actually officially rejoin Tennessee until 1986.

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田纳西是南方的一个州，脱离了美利坚合众国，加入了邦联(美利坚联盟国)，除了斯科特县脱离了田纳西州，形成了一个不被承认的独立州。斯科特县直到1986年才正式加入田纳西州。

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Tennessee's western border was originally defined by the course of the Mississippi River, which has since changed course, which has led to all these enclaves and exclaves⁽²⁾ of the two states on the two sides of the river.

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田纳西州的西部边界最初是由密西西比河的河道划定的，后来密西西比河改道，导致了所有这些河两岸两个州的飞地。
⁽²⁾exclaves，指一个国家或地区有一块不连在一起的领土。

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The Arkansas River, a major tributary of the Mississippi, begins all the way in Colorado, where nobody's entirely sure which mountain is the tallest, Mount Elbert or Mount Massive.

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阿肯色河，密西西比河的一条主要支流，发源于科罗拉多州，这里没有人能完全确定哪座山是最高的，不管是阿尔伯特峰还是马西梧山。

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Since their heights are within 10 feet of each other, and people keep building piles of rocks on the summits to make one mountain taller than the other.

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因为它们之间的高度相差不到10英尺，人们不断在山顶上堆砌岩石，使一座山比另一座山高。

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Colorado is also home to the America's longest continuous street, Colfax Avenue in Denver at 26 miles long, but the shortest individually named street in America is reportedly McKinley street in Bellefontaine Ohio at a mere 28 feet long.

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科罗拉多州还拥有美国最长的连续街道，丹佛的科尔法克斯大道长26英里，但据报道，美国最短的单独命名的街道是俄亥俄州贝尔方丹市的麦金利街，只有28英尺长。

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Ohio's northernmost point is actually south of Canada's southernmost point—Pelee island.

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俄亥俄州的最北端实际上是加拿大的最南端——皮利岛。

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Pelee island, Canada, in fact, is farther south than parts of 27 states including California which as a state has a higher population than the entire country of Canada.

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事实上，加拿大的皮利岛比包括加利福尼亚州在内的27个州的部分地区更靠南，而加利福尼亚州的人口比整个加拿大的人口还要多。

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Los Angeles, California, despite being on the Pacific ocean, is east of six state capitals including Nevada.

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加州的洛杉矶虽然位于太平洋沿岸，但位于内华达州(首府里诺市)等6个州首府以东。

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Nevada has the point in the entire United States where you're farthest from a McDonalds—only 116 miles, although Nevada is not the state with the fewest McDonalds, that title goes to the state with 29 McDonalds.

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内华达是美国距离麦当劳最远的州，有116英里，虽然内华达州并不是麦当劳最少的州，但这个称号属于拥有29家麦当劳的州。
⁽³⁾由于加州东北部的一家麦当劳门店关闭，现在在内华达州西北部，客人跑一趟麦当劳最远可达116英里。

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这是文多弗制作公司制作的《美国的每一个州》，由the Great Courses Plus制作。我们从阿拉巴马开始，按字母顺序排列的第一个州。

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This is "Every State in the US" by Wendover Productions and made possible by The Great Courses Plus. We'll start with Alabama, the first state alphabetically.

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阿拉巴马州的玉兰泉市是美国唯一一个用船投递邮件的城镇，不过美国最长的邮件投递路线是在俄克拉荷马州的农村，那里的快递司机每天必须开车187.6英里，才能将邮件送到大约200户人家。

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Magnolia Springs, Alabama is the only town in America to have their mail delivered by boat, although the longest mail delivery route in America is in rural Oklahoma, where delivery drivers have to drive 187.6 miles each day to delivery the mail to around 200 houses.

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俄克拉荷马州的州蔬菜是西瓜，而西瓜恰好(也可以称)是一种水果，俄克拉荷马州也是堪萨斯州的所在地(紧挨着)，这个城镇，真正的堪萨斯州，或者更具体地说，是美国本土地理中心点。

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Oklahoma's state vegetable is the watermelon, which happens to be a fruit, and Oklahoma is also home to Kansas, the town, the real Kansas, or more specifically this point, is the geographic center of the contiguous United States.

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堪萨斯不是堪萨斯城的所在地，与直觉相反，堪萨斯城位于密苏里州，那里是美国的人口中心点，是每个美国人的平均居住地。

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What Kansas is not home to is Kansas City which counterintuitively is in Missouri where the population center⁽¹⁾ of the US is, the average location of every American.
⁽¹⁾美国最新的人口分布中心点，这个具有象征意义的地方，位于密苏里州南部中间的莱特县。这个点是这样决定的：想象整个美国是一个巨大的刚性平面，假设每个人的质量都一样，而且都站在普查时所在的地点，这个中心点正好使得平面得以平衡。

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密苏里州与八州接壤，因此与田纳西州并列，成为与其他州接壤最多的州。

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Missouri borders eight states, and is therefore tied with Tennessee as the state that borders the most other states.

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田纳西是南方的一个州，脱离了美利坚合众国，加入了邦联(美利坚联盟国)，除了斯科特县脱离了田纳西州，形成了一个不被承认的独立州。斯科特县直到1986年才正式加入田纳西州。

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Tennessee was a southern state that seceded from the United States, and joined the confederacy except for Scott County which seceded from Tennessee and formed an unrecognized independent state. Scott County didn't actually officially rejoin Tennessee until 1986.

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田纳西州的西部边界最初是由密西西比河的河道划定的，后来密西西比河改道，导致了所有这些河两岸两个州的飞地。

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Tennessee's western border was originally defined by the course of the Mississippi River, which has since changed course, which has led to all these enclaves and exclaves⁽²⁾ of the two states on the two sides of the river.
⁽²⁾exclaves，指一个国家或地区有一块不连在一起的领土。

8

阿肯色河，密西西比河的一条主要支流，发源于科罗拉多州，这里没有人能完全确定哪座山是最高的，不管是阿尔伯特峰还是马西梧山。

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The Arkansas River, a major tributary of the Mississippi, begins all the way in Colorado, where nobody's entirely sure which mountain is the tallest, Mount Elbert or Mount Massive.

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因为它们之间的高度相差不到10英尺，人们不断在山顶上堆砌岩石，使一座山比另一座山高。

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Since their heights are within 10 feet of each other, and people keep building piles of rocks on the summits to make one mountain taller than the other.

10

科罗拉多州还拥有美国最长的连续街道，丹佛的科尔法克斯大道长26英里，但据报道，美国最短的单独命名的街道是俄亥俄州贝尔方丹市的麦金利街，只有28英尺长。

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Colorado is also home to the America's longest continuous street, Colfax Avenue in Denver at 26 miles long, but the shortest individually named street in America is reportedly McKinley street in Bellefontaine Ohio at a mere 28 feet long.

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俄亥俄州的最北端实际上是加拿大的最南端——皮利岛。

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Ohio's northernmost point is actually south of Canada's southernmost point—Pelee island.

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事实上，加拿大的皮利岛比包括加利福尼亚州在内的27个州的部分地区更靠南，而加利福尼亚州的人口比整个加拿大的人口还要多。

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Pelee island, Canada, in fact, is farther south than parts of 27 states including California which as a state has a higher population than the entire country of Canada.

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加州的洛杉矶虽然位于太平洋沿岸，但位于内华达州(首府里诺市)等6个州首府以东。

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Los Angeles, California, despite being on the Pacific ocean, is east of six state capitals including Nevada.

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内华达是美国距离麦当劳最远的州，有116英里，虽然内华达州并不是麦当劳最少的州，但这个称号属于拥有29家麦当劳的州。

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Nevada has the point in the entire United States where you're farthest from a McDonalds—only 116 miles, although Nevada is not the state with the fewest McDonalds, that title goes to the state with 29 McDonalds.
⁽³⁾由于加州东北部的一家麦当劳门店关闭，现在在内华达州西北部，客人跑一趟麦当劳最远可达116英里。

1

This is "Every State in the US" by Wendover Productions and made possible by The Great Courses Plus. We'll start with Alabama, the first state alphabetically.
2

Magnolia Springs, Alabama is the only town in America to have their mail delivered by boat, although the longest mail delivery route in America is in rural Oklahoma, where delivery drivers have to drive 187.6 miles each day to delivery the mail to around 200 houses.
3

Oklahoma's state vegetable is the watermelon, which happens to be a fruit, and Oklahoma is also home to Kansas, the town, the real Kansas, or more specifically this point, is the geographic center of the contiguous United States.
4

What Kansas is not home to is Kansas City which counterintuitively is in Missouri where the population center⁽¹⁾ of the US is, the average location of every American.
5

Missouri borders eight states, and is therefore tied with Tennessee as the state that borders the most other states.
6

Tennessee was a southern state that seceded from the United States, and joined the confederacy except for Scott County which seceded from Tennessee and formed an unrecognized independent state. Scott County didn't actually officially rejoin Tennessee until 1986.
7

Tennessee's western border was originally defined by the course of the Mississippi River, which has since changed course, which has led to all these enclaves and exclaves⁽²⁾ of the two states on the two sides of the river.
8

The Arkansas River, a major tributary of the Mississippi, begins all the way in Colorado, where nobody's entirely sure which mountain is the tallest, Mount Elbert or Mount Massive.
9

Since their heights are within 10 feet of each other, and people keep building piles of rocks on the summits to make one mountain taller than the other.
10

Colorado is also home to the America's longest continuous street, Colfax Avenue in Denver at 26 miles long, but the shortest individually named street in America is reportedly McKinley street in Bellefontaine Ohio at a mere 28 feet long.
11

Ohio's northernmost point is actually south of Canada's southernmost point—Pelee island.
12

Pelee island, Canada, in fact, is farther south than parts of 27 states including California which as a state has a higher population than the entire country of Canada.
13

Los Angeles, California, despite being on the Pacific ocean, is east of six state capitals including Nevada.
14

Nevada has the point in the entire United States where you're farthest from a McDonalds—only 116 miles, although Nevada is not the state with the fewest McDonalds, that title goes to the state with 29 McDonalds.

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