massachusetts

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massachusetts — 名詞

1. one of the fifty states that make up the United States, located in the northeast

1.名詞B1
釋義

麻薩諸塞州

美國東北部的州,首府波士頓

one of the fifty states that make up the United States, located in the northeastern part of the country along the Atlantic coast, with Boston as its capital city

例句

Salma moved to Massachusetts to study engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Salma 搬到麻薩諸塞州,到麻省理工學院攻讀工程學。

collocation: Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Plymouth in Massachusetts was an early English settlement in North America.

麻薩諸塞州的普利茅斯是北美早期的英國殖民地之一。

用法筆記

Massachusetts is officially called the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, though this does not change its legal status compared to other US states. In writing, it is commonly abbreviated as MA or Mass.

常見錯誤

The capital of Massachusetts is Washington D.C.
The capital of Massachusetts is Boston.
💡Boston, not Washington D.C., is the capital of this state.