| 词汇 | the big apple |
| 词源 | the Big Apple. A nickname for New York City since the 1960s, the Big Apple was first used in New Orleans. In about 1910 jazz musicians there used it as a loose translation of the Spanish manzana principal, the main “apple orchard,” the main city block downtown, the place where all the action is. |
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