Carolinaの意味・使い方・発音

Carolina

英 [,kærə'laɪnə] 美

Carolina: 1663, North American colony named for King Charles II (the Latin form of the male proper name is Carolus). Earlier French colonists called the region Caroline (1564) in honor of Charles IX, King of France. A 1629 grant here by Charles I of England was named Carolana. The original site of the name is modern South Carolina and the tract originally included North Carolina and Georgia; North Carolina first used 1691, in reference to settlements made from Virginia. The official division into north and south dates from 1710. Used generically in forming species names in botany and zoology from 1734.

1. 170-mile-an-hour winds were clocked on a mountaintop in North Carolina .: ノースカロライナ州の山頂で測定された風速は時速170マイル。<／

2.The NCAA basketball championship was won by North Carolina .: ノースカロライナ大学が米大学バスケットボールリーグで優勝した。

4.After the fire，it was revealed that North Carolina officials had never inspected the factory.: 大火の後、ノースカロライナ州の役人がこの工場を検査したことがないことが分かった。

5.For the past two decades，North Carolina taxed cigarettes at a mere 2 cents a packet.: 過去20年間、ノースカロライナ州のタバコ税は1パックあたり2セントにすぎなかった。