the Great Plains
/ðə ˌɡreɪt ˈpleɪnz/
/ðə ˌɡreɪt ˈpleɪnz/
- a large area of the west central US where the land is high and flat. It includes the 10 Plains States, stretching about 400 miles/644 kilometres east from the Rocky Mountains, and from Canada to southern Texas. It was the home of the Plains Indians and is also called the Wheat Belt of America, although dry weather in the 1930s turned the southern part into the Dust Bowl.
大平原：美国中西部大片土地，地势平坦。它包括10个平原州，从洛矶山脉向东延伸约400英里/ 644公里，从加拿大延伸到得克萨斯州南部。它是平原印第安人的故乡，也被称为美国小麦带，尽管1930年代的干旱天气将南部变成了沙尘暴。