哪个城市被称为“Big Apple”

哪个城市被称为“Big Apple”
哪个城市被称为“Big Apple”

哪个城市被称为“Big Apple”
纽约

是纽约。你知道纽约的这个昵称是怎么来的吗？
上个世纪二十年代，有一个名叫约翰·菲兹杰拉德的报刊作家，曾为他撰写的一个赛马专栏取名为Around the Big Apple。据约翰·菲兹杰拉德说，他是从新奥尔良的赛马骑师那儿第一次听说Big Apple这个词的，骑师们将纽约的赛马跑道称为Big Apple，因为那是每一个职业赛马骑师的目标所在。
1971年，为了吸引游客重返纽约，...

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是纽约。你知道纽约的这个昵称是怎么来的吗？
上个世纪二十年代，有一个名叫约翰·菲兹杰拉德的报刊作家，曾为他撰写的一个赛马专栏取名为Around the Big Apple。据约翰·菲兹杰拉德说，他是从新奥尔良的赛马骑师那儿第一次听说Big Apple这个词的，骑师们将纽约的赛马跑道称为Big Apple，因为那是每一个职业赛马骑师的目标所在。
1971年，为了吸引游客重返纽约，Big Apple首次作为官方广告的主题出现。那个时候，纽约被普遍认为是一个又吵、又脏、又危险的城市，这次广告宣传活动旨在重塑纽约的城市形象，突出纽约热闹繁华的一面。
一想起纽约就会首先想到那些大人物、那令人眼花缭乱的百老汇、林肯中心、自由女神像以及华尔街。这里是全世界最吸引人也是最激动人心的城市之一，是美国最大的金融、商业、贸易和文化中心。对于多元文化的包容，一直是纽约最伟大的优点之一，三百年来这座城市一直敞开胸膛迎接来自世界各国的友人，是一个名副其实的Big Apple。

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2.因为以前美国外销水果是以加州最出名, 但是有一年加州苹果欠收, 欠收的严重度到会影响美国苹果外销的美名, 但是因为纽约的苹果帮了大忙, 因而称之为 big apple
据说，大约在50多年前，美国一群爵士乐师们，经常巡逻回到各地去演出赚钱。乐师们把所有要去的城镇，都描述成树上的苹果。他们演出赚钱，就像摘树上的苹果。纽约在当时是所有城镇中赚钱最多的城市。每个城镇都叫Apple，那么纽约自...

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2.因为以前美国外销水果是以加州最出名, 但是有一年加州苹果欠收, 欠收的严重度到会影响美国苹果外销的美名, 但是因为纽约的苹果帮了大忙, 因而称之为 big apple
据说，大约在50多年前，美国一群爵士乐师们，经常巡逻回到各地去演出赚钱。乐师们把所有要去的城镇，都描述成树上的苹果。他们演出赚钱，就像摘树上的苹果。纽约在当时是所有城镇中赚钱最多的城市。每个城镇都叫Apple，那么纽约自然就是一个Big Apple了。此后，纽约一家俱乐部和一种流行舞蹈也取名the Big Apple。大约20年前，纽约市的官员们为了招揽游客，于是将the Big Apple正式作为这个城市的象征物。从此，越来越多的旅行者被吸引到纽约去参加访问。The Big Apple成为纽约的别名也就传遍全球了。

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New york!The "Big Apple" is a nickname or alternate toponym for New York City. Its popularity since the 1970s is due to a promotional campaign by the New York Convention and Visitor's Bureau. Its earl...

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New york!The "Big Apple" is a nickname or alternate toponym for New York City. Its popularity since the 1970s is due to a promotional campaign by the New York Convention and Visitor's Bureau. Its earlier origins are less clear.
One explanation cited by the New-York Historical Society and others is that it was first popularized by John J. Fitz Gerald, who first used it in his horse racing column in the -->
New York Morning Telegraph in 1921, then further explaining its origins in his February 18, 1924 column. Fitz Gerald credited African-American stable-hands working at horseracing tracks in New Orleans:
The Big Apple. The dream of every lad that ever threw a leg over a thoroughbred and the goal of all horsemen. There's only one Big Apple. That's New York.
Two dusky stable hands were leading a pair of thoroughbred around the "cooling rings" of adjoining stables at the Fair Grounds in New Orleans and engaging in desultory conversation.
"Where y'all goin' from here?" queried one.
"From here we're headin' for The Big Apple", proudly replied the other.
"Well, you'd better fatten up them skinners or all you'll get from the apple will be the core", was the quick rejoinder.
In the 1920s the New York race tracks were the cream of the crop, so going to the New York races was a big treat, the prize, allegorically a Big Apple.
In 1997, as part of an official designation of "Big Apple Corner" in Manhattan, former Mayor Rudy Giuliani summarizes the rest of the story:
A decade later many jazz musicians began calling the City "The Big Apple" to refer to New York City (especially Harlem) as the jazz capital of the world. Soon the nickname became synonymous with New York City and its cultural diversity.
In the early 1970s the name played an important role in reviving New York's tourist economy through a campaign led by the New York Convention and Visitors Bureau. Today the nickname "The Big Apple," which replaced "Fun City," is the international description of the city and is synonymous with the cultural and tourist attractions of New York City.
Therefore, it is only fitting that the southwest corner of West 54th Street and Broadway, the corner on which John J. Fitz Gerald resided from 1934 to 1963, be designated "Big Apple Corner."
According to PBS's Broadway: The American Musical miniseries, Walter Winchell used the term "Big Apple" to refer to the New York cultural scene, especially Harlem and Broadway, helping to spread the use of this nickname.
A documented earlier use comes from the 1909 book The Wayfarer in New York by Edward S. Martin. He wrote (regarding New York) that the rest of the United States "inclines to think the big apple gets a disproportionate share of the national sap."
Etymologists have been unable to trace any influence that this use had on the nickname's popularity.
见http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_Apple

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注意:纽约的英文名是"New York"

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