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Maine is a state in the north-east of the United States, up on the Atlantic, against the Canadian border. It is the biggest of the New England states, but not many people live there. People know it for woods, lakes, a rocky coast, lighthouses, and lobster. Winters are long and cold; summers on the coast are the time visitors come. The capital is Augusta; the city you hear about more is Portland. Though actually, the name has nothing to do with the English word main (most important), even though they sound the same. French explorers named it after Maine, an old province in France.
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組成The US state is from French Maine, named by French explorers after the province in France. From Old French Cemaine, from Latin Cenomania, from the Gaulish Cenomani people. The name was later heard as ce (this) + Maine, and the ce- was lost by the 1100s. Not the same word as English main.
原始詞典資料14 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。
Mainename詞源 1/mɛn/
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A former province of Pays de la Loire, France. Capital: Le Mans.
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A state of the United States; probably named for the province in France. Capital: Augusta. Largest city: Portland.
- These first English migrants to Jamestown endured terrible disease and arrived during a period of drought and colder-than-normal winters. The migrants to Roanoke on the outer banks of Carolina, where the English had gone in the 1580s, disappeared. And a brief effort to settle the coast of Maine in 1607 and 1608 failed because of an unusually bitter winter.
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A town in New York.
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A town in Outagamie County, Wisconsin; named for the state.
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A river in Maine, United States, flowing 5.5 miles from Pocomoonshine Lake in Princeton into Crawford Lake in Crawford.
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University of Maine.
Mainename詞源 2/mɛːn/
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A river in Maine-et-Loire department, Pays de la Loire, France, a tributary of the Loire, flowing 12 km through the city of Angers from the confluence of the Mayenne and Sarthe into the Loire.
Mainename詞源 3
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A Scottish and English surname from Old French, a variant of Main.
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A village in Marathon County, Wisconsin; named for county sheriff Uriah E. Maine.
Mainename詞源 4
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A river in County Kerry, Ireland, flowing 43 km from Tobermaing into the Atlantic at Castlemaine.
Mainename詞源 5
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A male given name from Old Irish, of historical usage, notably borne by Irish kings Maine mac Cerbaill and Maine mac Néill.
這個拼法也被記錄為下列字的變化形：
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。