波士顿是美国马萨诸塞州的首府，也是北美最大的港口之一，还是美国独立战争的策源地。工业特别是造船业发达，海运业凭借港湾优势鼎盛不衰，商业繁荣。在文化设施上拥有全美顶尖的一流高等学府。二战结束以来的几十年间，除个别年份外，战争趋势减缓，军港的作用相形见绌，显 Boston is the capital of Massachusetts, the United States, is also one of North America’s largest port, or the source of the American Revolutionary War. Industry, especially the shipbuilding industry developed, the shipping industry by virtue of the dominance of the harbor, business prosperity. In the cultural facilities have the nation’s top first-class institutions of higher learning. During the decades since the end of World War II, with the exception of a few years, the war trend slowed down and the role of the military port dwarfed