词汇 | the bronx |
词源 | the Bronx. The Bronx, one of New York City’s five boroughs, takes its name from Jonas Bronck, a Dane who first settled the area for the Dutch West India Company in 1641. Points of in- terest in the celebrated borough are the Bronx Zoo and Botanic Gardens, the Edgar Allan Poe cottage, and Yankee Stadium, “the house that Ruth built.” The Bronx River runs from Westchester County through the Bronx and into the East Riv- er. The Bronx cocktail was named in honor of the borough, or invented there in about 1919. Long associated with baseball, the razz, or raspberry, called the Bronx cheer wasn’t born at Yankee Stadium, home of baseball’s New York Yankees. It may derive from the Spanish word branca, “a rude shout,” or have originated at the National Theater in the Bronx. We know for certain only that the term was first recorded in 1929. See raspberry. |
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