Prairie State

基本解释

However, about 60% of the state is actually prairie, part of the northern Great Plains .
但是，大约60 ％的国家实际上是草原的一部分，北部大平原。
ALABAMA’S Black Belt, a prairie region that spans the south-central part of the state between the Georgia and Mississippi borders, is flat, green and low.
阿拉巴马州的黑色带（Black Belt）是一片草原地带，横跨该州的中南部，与佐治亚州和密西西比州接壤。
Spider lilies grow among sedges and rushes in the coastal prairie land of Texas' Brazos Bend State Park.
Brazos Bend 州立公园座落于德克萨斯州的的海岸大草原，在莎草和急流中，长着一种神似蜘蛛的百合花。

He grew up in the Sandy Hills section of the Nebraska prairie — the same part of the state the Keystone Pipeline is supposed to traverse — and started supporting his family while still a teenager when his father died prematurely.
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