广播电视英语短句 第 317 课：有趣的昵称-1

A nickname is a shortened form of a person's name. 昵称是一个人名字的缩短形式.

A nickname can also be a descriptive name for a person, place or thing. 还可以是对一个人，地点或事物进行描述的名字。

America's fifty states have some of the most historically interesting nicknames. 美国的五十个州都有历史上最有趣的别名。

Alabama is known as the Heart of Dixie because it is in the very middle of a group of states in the Deep South. 阿拉巴马州以美国“南部各州的中心”(Heart of Dixie)著名，因为它位于深南部(Deep South)各州的正中心。

Dixie itself is a nickname for the American South. Dixie本身就是美国南部各州的别名。