英语词汇do a brodie的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

do a Brodie. As a result of his famous leap off the Brooklyn Bridge, Steve Brodie’s name became a byword—in the form of to do (or pull) a Brodie—for “taking a great chance, even taking a suicidal leap.” Brodie made his jump from the Manhattan side of the Brooklyn Bridge on July 23, 1886, to win a $200 barroom bet. Eluding guards on the bridge, the 23-year-old daredevil climbed to the lowest cable and plummeted 135 feet into the water below, where friends were waiting to retrieve him in a rowboat. He was arrested for endangering his life and repri- manded by a judge, but that didn’t stop him from making fu- ture leaps off other bridges. Some say that Brodie never jumped at all, an unproved theory, and many at the time belittled his claim. It is said that Brodie once angered boxer Jim Corbett’s father by predicting that John L. Sullivan would knock his son out. “So you’re the fellow who jumped over the Brooklyn Bridge,” the elder Corbett said when the two met for the first time. “No, I jumped off of it,” Brodie corrected him. “Oh,” re- plied Corbett, “I thought you jumped over it. Any damn fool can jump off it.”

词汇	do a brodie
词源	do a Brodie. As a result of his famous leap off the Brooklyn Bridge, Steve Brodie’s name became a byword—in the form of to do (or pull) a Brodie—for “taking a great chance, even taking a suicidal leap.” Brodie made his jump from the Manhattan side of the Brooklyn Bridge on July 23, 1886, to win a $200 barroom bet. Eluding guards on the bridge, the 23-year-old daredevil climbed to the lowest cable and plummeted 135 feet into the water below, where friends were waiting to retrieve him in a rowboat. He was arrested for endangering his life and repri- manded by a judge, but that didn’t stop him from making fu- ture leaps off other bridges. Some say that Brodie never jumped at all, an unproved theory, and many at the time belittled his claim. It is said that Brodie once angered boxer Jim Corbett’s father by predicting that John L. Sullivan would knock his son out. “So you’re the fellow who jumped over the Brooklyn Bridge,” the elder Corbett said when the two met for the first time. “No, I jumped off of it,” Brodie corrected him. “Oh,” re- plied Corbett, “I thought you jumped over it. Any damn fool can jump off it.”
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