词汇 | massachusetts |
词源 | Massachusetts. “Place of the big hill” is the English transla- tion of the Algonquian Massachusetts. The Bay State was ad- mitted to the Union in 1788 as our sixth state and had been called the Massachusetts Bay Colony before then. It is now offi- cially called the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. |
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