英文学以致用，领略语言之美。有道词典，不只是查单词，还带你看天下。
1. Christmas圣诞
What other people think it means: The most wonderful time of the year.
其它人的理解：一年中最美好的日子。
What people from New Mexico know it means: The answer to the most common question asked by restaurant servers in the state: “Red or green?”
新墨西哥州人的理解：他们通常用这个词来回应本州酒店的服务员常问的那句“红酱还是绿酱？”
“Christmas” means you want it both ways.
因为 “Christmas” 在这里的意思是你两种酱都要。
2. Balloons气球
What other people think it means: Air-filled birthday decorations, or what you buy at the florist when you can’t afford flowers.
其他人的理解：过生日时用的充气装饰物，或者当你买不起花的时候，你也可以在花店里买这个东西。
What people from New Mexico know it means: The breathtaking sight as hundreds of vibrantly colored, whimsical hot-air balloons take flight over Albuquerque at the annual International Balloon Fiesta.
新墨西哥州人的理解：千万个五颜六色的热气球在一年一度的国际气球节上升空，飞过阿尔布开克的壮观场景。
3. Tumbleweeds 风滚草
What other people think it means: Cute decorations representing the Wild West.
其他人的理解：在西部荒野具有代表性的可爱装饰物
What people from New Mexico know it means: Menacing, nasty, thorny assemblages of evil that chase innocent pedestrians, shut down traffic, and trap people inside their own homes.
新墨西哥州人的理解：险恶的、肮脏的、令人不快的一群恶魔，它们会追赶无辜的行人，阻碍交通，还会诱骗行人到自己的窝穴中。
4. The Pit 果核
What other people think it means: That thing you spit out of cherries. (Also: That place you sniff under your arms.)
其他人的理解：吃樱桃时会吐出来的东西。（也有说法是：手臂下方你会去嗅的那个地方。）
What people from New Mexico know it means: The subterranean home of the outstanding UNM Lobos basketball teams.
新墨西哥州人的理解：新墨西哥州大学林狼篮球队的地下场地。
Its fans are some of the nation’s loudest and proudest, and when you’re watching a game there, everyone’s a Lobo. Woof woof woof!
这支球队的粉丝们是全国最吵闹和最骄傲的，在这里看比赛的每一个人都是林狼，他们会模仿狼嚎来为球队助威。
5. Adobe
What other people think it means: The software giant whose products include Photoshop, Flash, and Acrobat.
其他人的理解：软件界的巨人，旗下产品有Photoshop，Flash和Acrobat等。
What people from New Mexico know it means: Our native architecture, revered for its beautiful simplicity and environmental sustainability.
新墨西哥州人的理解：本地的建筑风格，以其优雅的简约与亲和自然的可持续性特质而备受推崇。
6. Green 绿
What other people think it means: A color that Kermit the frog doesn’t find it easy to be.
其他人的理解：那只叫Kermit的青蛙（动画人物）无法变成的颜色。
What people from New Mexico know it means: Green chile — vastly superior to red tbh — and a staple in most New Mexican foods.
新墨西哥州人的理解：青椒——受欢迎程度极大地超过了红辣椒——新墨西哥州饮食的常见用料。
And that includes pizza, apple pie, and guacamole.
它不仅会出现在披萨里，还会出现在苹果派和鳄梨色拉里。
7. Hatch 舱口
What other people think it means: What Desmond Hume called home on Lost.
其他人的理解：电影《迷失》中，德斯蒙德-休姆称之为家的地方。
What people from New Mexico know it means: The Chile Capital of the World and the only type of chile worth eating.
新墨西哥州人的理解：世界辣椒至尊，唯一值得一吃的辣椒种类。
8. Isotopes 同位素
What other people think it means: Something to do with atoms and the Periodic Table.
其他人的理解：跟原子和元素周期表有关的某种东西。
What people from New Mexico know it means: Albuquerque’s Minor League baseball team, named after The Simpsons’ hometown team.
新墨西哥州人的理解：阿尔布开克职业球队联盟里的一支棒球队，以辛普森家庭起源地的球队命名。
(Homer started a hunger strike when they threatened to relocate from Springfield to Albuquerque.)
（动画片里，在他们威胁说要从斯普林菲尔德转移到阿尔布开克时，荷马【辛普森家庭里的爸爸】还绝食抗议。）
The Isotopes are cheered on by one of the most ridiculous mascots in sports: a “large, goofy alien” named Orbit.
Isotopes球队的吉祥物是所有运动中最蠢的吉祥物之一：一个“巨大而笨拙的外星人”，名叫Orbit。
9. Holiday wreaths 节日花圈
What other people think it means: A circular decoration fashioned from rejected Christmas trees.
其他人的理解：用废弃的圣诞树为材料制成的圆圈状装饰物
What people from New Mexico know it means: Leave those evergreen branches on the ground where you found them.
新墨西哥州人的理解：把你找到的常青树树干（圣诞树的材料）留在原地。
Ristras — made of drying (and edible!) red chiles — are the way we celebrate the season.
辣椒串——由风干（且可食用！）的红辣椒串联而成—— 才是我们庆祝圣诞节的方式。
10. Breaking Bad 绝命毒师
What other people think it means: The greatest TV series of all time.
其他人的理解：有史以来最好看的电视剧
What people from New Mexico know it means: Ours, bitch!
新墨西哥州人的理解：那部剧是我们的，贱人！
11. “Q”
What other people think it means: The 17th letter of the alphabet, a musical starring puppets, and/or a mischievous Star Trek character.
其他人的理解：字母表上第17个字母，一个音乐剧里的木偶角色，以及/或者电影星际迷航里的一个调皮角色。
What people from New Mexico know it means: Short for Albuquerque.
新墨西哥州人的理解：阿尔布开克的简写。
Breaking Bad shot at Q Studios, which is where you’ll end up if you follow the GPS coordinates hidden in Walter White’s infamous lottery ticket.
电视剧绝命毒师的拍摄地在Q摄影棚，如果你用GPS跟着剧里Walter White那张臭名昭著的乐透券上的坐标走，就会来到这里。
12. Honey
What other people think it means: A term of endearment, or a sweetener for tea or toast.
其他人的理解：一个对爱人的称呼，或者是一种用来增加茶的甜味或抹在烤面包上使用的甜味剂。
What people from New Mexico know it means: What you squirt into your sopaipillas when you’re eating them for dessert (as opposed to the sopaipillas you ate as an appetizer and main course).
新墨西哥州人的理解：当你将油炸蜜糕作为甜点吃时，你得将蜂蜜注入蜜糕里（和将其作为开胃菜和主菜时的做法相反。）
13. Blake’s
What other people think it means: The singers on The Voice who are competing on Blake Shelton’s team.
其他人的理解：美国好声音里的一队歌手，他们在节目上属于布莱克·谢尔顿那一队。
What people from New Mexico know it means: Blake’s Lotaburger, founded in the Q in ’52 and the tastiest burger and fries this side of the moon. (Only a fool orders a Lotaburger without green chiles.)
新墨西哥州人的理解：布莱克汉堡店，1952年在阿尔布开克市开张，它们家的汉堡和薯条是这个世界上最好吃的。（只有傻瓜才会在布莱克点汉堡时不加青椒。）
14. Luminarias （墨西哥的）传统圣诞灯
What other people think it means: Decorative lights.
其他人的理解：装饰用的灯具。
What people from New Mexico know it means: The holiday season.
新墨西哥州人的理解：放假的季节。
(Albuquerque’s annual Luminaria Tour shows how much magic you can make with a paper bag, some sand, and a candle.)
（阿尔布开克市一年一度的圣诞灯巡回展会让你知道用纸袋、沙子和蜡烛能创造出多少神奇。）
15. Frontier 边疆
What other people think it means: Uncharted territory.
其他人的理解：未知的地域。
What people from New Mexico know it means: Where you’ll find the best cinnamon buns in the Southwest.
新墨西哥州人的理解：在这里，你能找到西南地区最好吃的肉桂味圆面包。
16. Taos 陶斯
What other people think it means: Where Julia Roberts lives.
其他人的理解：茱莉亚·罗伯茨住的地方。
What people from New Mexico know it means: Nirvana for artists (its artist colony included Georgia O’Keeffe and Ansel Adams),
新墨西哥州人的理解：艺术家的极乐世界（这里住着的艺术家有乔治亚·欧姬芙和安塞尔·亚当斯），
skiers (the Taos Ski Valley boasts some of the most challenging slopes in the country), and spiritual pilgrims.
滑雪天堂（陶斯滑雪度假村号称自己的雪场有着美国最有挑战性的斜坡之一）和精神朝圣者的圣地。
17. Truth or Consequences 真相或结果
What other people think it means: An old game show.
其他人的理解：一个以前的游戏节目。
What people from New Mexico know it means: An actual town (known to us as “T or C”) named after a game show.
新墨西哥州人的理解：一个以一个游戏节目的名字来命名的实际存在的小镇（人们常说的“T或C”）。
People who aren’t scared off by the name soak in its famous hot springs or stock up on sun ’n’ fun supplies on the way to Elephant Butte Lake.
没有被这个名字吓跑的人们会发现这里的春天十分温暖，并沉浸其中，或者是在去象山湖国家公园享受阳光下的各种娱乐活动。
18. Turquoise绿松石
What other people think it means: A blue-green stone; the color of same.
其他人的理解：一种蓝绿色的石头；蓝绿色
What people from New Mexico know it means: The color/mineral adorning most structures, decor, jewelry, and closets in the state. Love it or hate it, turquoise is inescapable in N.M.
新墨西哥州人的理解：州内用于装饰建筑、饰品、珠宝和柜子的一种色彩/矿物质。不管你喜不喜欢它，它到处可见。
19. Sky 天空
What other people think it means: That vaguely blue thing you see when you look up.
其他人的理解：抬头时会看见的一片无垠的蓝色。
What people from New Mexico know it means: An awe-inspiring glimpse into heaven.
新墨西哥州人的理解：望向那令人敬畏的天堂的一瞥
