Yankees & Yank

Time to learn a little about those Yankees and their country and culture! Since I’m a Yank, …

Yankees: originally a nickname for people from New England, now applied to anyone from the United States. Even before the American Revolutionary War, the term Yankee was used by the British to refer, derisively, to the American colonists. Since the Civil War, American southerners have called all northerners Yankees.

即美国本土人（一般指美国北方人）。

The New York Yankees are an American professional baseball team based in the New York City borough of the Bronx. The Yankees compete in Major League Baseball (MLB) as a member club of the American League (AL) East division.

Yank：a shortened form of Yankee, a slang term (sometimes pejorative) for someone of American origin or heritage. In the United States, the word refers to people in the Northern states.