Mississippi是什么意思？

Mississippi

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• n. 密西西比河（发源于美国中北部湖沼区，南注墨西哥湾，是世界上最大的河流之一），密西西比州（美国州名）；

例句

• They plotted to make the whole Mississippi Valley secede from the United States. 他们阴谋策划使整个密西西比流域脱离美国。
• The Mississippi River empties into the Gulf of Mexico. 密西西比河流入墨西哥湾.
• Faulkner chronicled the life of Mississippi. 福克纳记述了密西西比州的生活史.
• It came from the backwaters of the Mississippi Delta. 它产生于密西西比河三角洲一带.
• The Missouri River is the chief tributary of the Mississippi. 密苏里河是密西西比河的主要支流.
• The water level of the Mississippi River is already 6.5 feet below normal. 密西西比河的水位已经比正常值低了6.5英尺。
• Like the Mississippi, it just keeps rolling along. 它就像密西西比河河水一样不断地滚滚向前.
• The name Mississippi came from the Chippewa Indians. 密西西比河的名字来源于齐佩瓦族的印第安语言.
• Oyster biostromes are forming in the bays of the modern Mississippi delta. 在现代密西西比三角洲的海湾中正形成着牡蛎生物丘.
• The deposits is very similar to the Mississippi Valley Type deposits in Appalachian and Missouri, USA. 矿床成因属密西西比河谷型(MVT),其地质特点可与北美Appalachia地区和Missouri地区的MVT矿床对比.

英语六级真题

Every year in the late summer, monarch begin their migration to the south, those heading for Mexico go first for the Louisiana Mississippi region.
出自-2014年6月听力原文
If such an earthquake happened today, it would be felt from the Rocky Mountains to the Atlantic Ocean and would flatten most of the cities in the Mississippi valley.
出自-2010年6月听力原文

英英词典释义

• Noun
  1. a major North American river and the chief river of the United States; rises in northern Minnesota and flows southward into the Gulf of Mexico
  2. a state in the Deep South on the gulf of Mexico; one of the Confederate States during the American Civil War