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Plains(n.)

"大约从第104度经线到落基山脉东坡的美国中西部地区",1755年(单数形式自1680年代起),见 plain(n.)。Plains Indian 自1844年起被证明存在。

This region has a gradual slope from the mountains to the Missouri and Mississippi rivers, but is nowhere broken by any conspicuous ranges of hills. It is a region of small precipitation, wooded only along the banks of the streams, and not always there. The Plains and the prairies are not properly the same, from either a geographical or a climatological point of view. [Century Dictionary]
这个地区从山区到密苏里河和密西西比河有一个逐渐的倾斜度,但没有任何显著的山脉。这是一个降水很少的地区,仅在河流沿岸有树木,而且并不总是有。从地理或气候的角度来看,平原和草原并不完全相同。[世纪词典]

该词起源时间:1755年