state
英[steɪt]
美[stet]
- n. 国家；州；情形
- vt. 规定；声明；陈述
- adj. 国家的；州的；正式的
- n. (State)人名；(罗、瑞典)斯塔特；(英)斯泰特
英英释意
- 1. the group of people comprising the government of a sovereign state;
- "the state has lowered its income tax"
- 2. the territory occupied by one of the constituent administrative districts of a nation;
- "his state is in the deep south"
- 3. a politically organized body of people under a single government;
- "the state has elected a new president"
- "African nations"
- "students who had come to the nation's capitol"
- "the country's largest manufacturer"
- "an industrialized land"
- 4. the way something is with respect to its main attributes;
- "the current state of knowledge"
- "his state of health"
- "in a weak financial state"
- 5. the territory occupied by a nation;
- "he returned to the land of his birth"
- "he visited several European countries"
- 6. a state of depression or agitation;
- "he was in such a state you just couldn't reason with him"
- 7. (chemistry) the three traditional states of matter are solids (fixed shape and volume) and liquids (fixed volume and shaped by the container) and gases (filling the container);
- "the solid state of water is called ice"