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"