the Louisiana Purchase
/ðə luˌiːziænə ˈpɜːtʃəs/
/ðə luˌiːziænə ˈpɜːrtʃəs/
- an area of US land bought from France in 1803 for $15 million, or less than 3 cents an acre. The area was about 828 000 square miles (more than 2 million square kilometres), and extended from the Mississippi River to the Rocky Mountains and from the Gulf of Mexico to Canada. It made the US more than twice as large as it had been, and encouraged Americans to move west. The French named the area after King Louis XIV.
路易斯安那购买：1803年以1500万美元（合每英亩不到3美分）从法国购买的美国土地。面积约为828 000平方英里（超过200万平方公里），从密西西比河到落基山脉，再从墨西哥湾到加拿大。它使美国的规模扩大了两倍，并鼓励美国人向西迁移。法国人以路易十四国王的名字命名该地区。