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Acadia was a French settlement in North America in the 1600s. It covered land that now belongs to Maine in the United States, and to Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, Prince Edward Island, and part of Quebec in Canada. The French who lived there were Acadians. In 1755 many were forced out by the British; some later made new homes in Louisiana, and their are the Cajuns — Cajun comes from Acadian. Today the name still appears in history, and in Acadia National Park in Maine, which remembers that old French country. It is a place name, so it takes a capital A.
阿卡迪亞
組成Scholars are not sure. It may come from Arcadia — a peaceful countryside in old Greek poetry — through Italian. Or it may come from Mi'kmaq akadie, fertile land. Both stories are told.
原始詞典資料3 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，原文照列，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
Acadianame/əˈkeɪ.di.ə/
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historicalA former French colony in North America in the 17th and early 18th centuries, spanning over what are now the Maritime provinces of eastern Canada (Nova Scotia, New Brunswick and Prince Edward Island) and part of the state of Maine in the United States.
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Acadia National Park, a national park in Maine.
- The fall rush around Acadia helps workers survive winter’s lean months. But that’s all at risk if a government shutdown forces America’s national parks and monuments to lock their gates, scuttling millions of vacations and school trips, and costing tourist towns from the Everglades to Yellowstone to Death Valley an estimated $70 million a day.
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A parish in southern Louisiana, first settled by some Acadian exiles then by mostly Franco-Americans: see Acadia Parish.
資料來源：英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary（CC BY-SA 4.0）。 原文照列，未經改寫。