California
California 英 [,kælɪ'fɔ:njə] 美 [,kælɪ'fɔnjə]
n. 加利福尼亚（美国一个州）
名词复数:californias
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- n. 加利福尼亚（美国一个州）
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1. California is a state of western United States.
加州是美国西部的一个州。
- California name of an imaginary realm in "Las sergas de Esplandián" ("Exploits of Espladán"), a romance by Spanish writer Garci Ordóñez de Montalvo, published in 1510. It was a sequel to his "Amadis de Gaula," and was said to have been influential among Spanish explorers of the New World. It could have led them to misidentify Baja California as this mythical land and to mistake it for an island. The Amadis tales are the Iberian equivalent of the Arthurian romances; they are older than 1510 (traces of them have been found mid-14c.) and were wildly popular. That conquistadors and sailors would have known the story in all its imaginative detail is hardly surprising.
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