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Mr Mars singled out the (still unchanged) flag of Milwaukee as the “kitchen sink”.
馬爾斯先生特別指出密爾沃基的旗幟(至今仍未改變)是“廚房水槽”。
Its images include a barley stalk for the brewing industry, a gear representing industry, a ship and, bizarrely, a wartime-service flag—a flag within a flag.
它的圖像包括了釀造工業的大麥莖，代表工業的齒輪，一艘船，奇怪的是，還有一面戰時服役的旗幟——旗中旗。
Maine’s seal is also far too fussy.
緬因州的圖標也太挑剔了。
It depicts a pine tree, a star, a moose, a sailor and a farmer, plus the words “Maine’‘ and “Dirigo” (“I lead” in Latin).
它描繪了一棵松樹、一顆星星、一頭駝鹿、一個水手和一個農民，加上“緬因”和“Dirigo”(拉丁語中的“我來領導”)兩個詞。
Ted Kaye, author of “Good Flag, Bad Flag”, a design primer, calls state flags with seals “sobs: seals on bed sheets”.
設計入門讀物《好旗，壞旗》的作者泰德·凱稱帶有印章的州旗為“哭訴：床單上的印章”。
Seals were meant to be read on documents, not fly on poles.
印章是用來在文件上解讀的，而不是掛在電線桿上的。
More than 20 states use seals with blue backgrounds as flags.
超過20個州使用藍色背景的印章作為旗幟。
It is tricky to tell them apart.
要把它們區分開來是很棘手的一件事。
Some try to solve this problem by including the state’s name.
有些人試圖通過在印章中囊括州名來解決這個問題。
“Imagine if the flag of France said ‘France’ on it,” despairs Mr Kaye.
“想象一下，如果法國的國旗上寫著‘法國’，”凱伊先生絕望地說。
A good flag creates a connection with the place it represents.
一面好看的旗幟能與它所代表的地方建立聯系。
Texas’s “Lone Star Flag” is a fine example, and is the best-selling state flag in the country.
德克薩斯州的“孤星旗”就是一個很好的例子，這也是全國最暢銷的州旗。
Earle Shettleworth, Maine’s state historian, points out that “state identity means a great deal to people.
緬因州歷史學家厄爾·謝特爾沃斯指出，“州的身份對人們來說意義重大。
And it’s really a question of how are we going to project ourselves?”
這實際上是一個我們如何展示自己的問題。”
“We didn’t set out to change the flag,” says Ms Field.
“我們并沒有打算改變旗幟，”菲爾德說。
When she and Mr Korzen started making their version, they asked: “Could we make this image be as recognisable as the word ‘Maine’?”
當她和科爾岑開始研究他們的版本時，他們問:“我們能把這個圖像做成像‘緬因’這個詞一樣容易識別嗎?”
Since Maine’s bicentennial in 2020, the star-and-pine-tree image is everywhere.
自2020年緬因州200周年紀念日以來，星星和松樹的形象無處不在。
The state Senate recently added an amendment to the bill requiring a referendum on whether to change the flag.
州參議院最近對該法案增加了一項修正案，要求對國旗是否需要更換進行全民公投。
Sean Paulus, the state lawmaker who proposed the bill, says it is “embracing what people have already shown that they want”.
提出該法案的州議員肖恩·保盧斯表示，該法案“包含了人們已經表達出的愿望”。
