U.S. state, probably ultimately from French Maine, region in France (named for the river that runs through it, which has a name of Gaulish origin). The name was applied to that part of coastal North America by French explorers.
权威例句
1. A forest fire is sweeping across portions of north Maine this evening.
今晚一场森林大火正席卷缅因州北部的部分地区。
2. I had gone to Maine looking for a place to work.
我去了缅因州找工作。
3. Maine had a soothing effect upon Babbitt.
缅因州对巴比特有一种安神作用.
4. The marshals hired some 650 assistants who traveled by foot and horseback from Maine to Georgia.
这些执行官又雇用了大约六百五十名助手,或步行,或骑马,从缅因州到了乔治亚州.
5. The Maine woodsman sits on a stump whose rings number centuries of growth.