英语词汇houdini的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

Houdini. Someone who pulls a Houdini performs an amaz- ing disappearing act or escape, and a Houdini is anyone with seemingly magical powers in any field. The expressions lion- ize Eric or Ehrich Weiss (1875–1926), an American magician who adopted the stage name Harry Houdini. Houdini named himself after Jean Eugène Robert Houdin (1805–71), a cele- brated French magician noted for the fact that he did not at- tribute his feats to supernatural powers. Harry Houdini became world-famous for his escapes from “impossible traps” such as locks, handcuffs, and straitjackets while suspended high in the air, or chained in chests submerged under water—all tricks, it is said, that can be explained today. A magician’s ma- gician who invented many magic tricks, he exposed numer- ous spiritualists and other fraudulent performers. Houdini also wrote a number of books and left his extensive magic li- brary to the Library of Congress, where there is now a Houdi- ni Room. The supreme magician has become the object of al- most cult-like worship among fellow necromancers. Once he claimed that if anyone could break the shackles of death and contact the living from the grave, he could. Since his death— “He was fifty-two when he died, his life like a deck of cards”— followers have periodically held seances where he is buried in Glendale, New York in Machpelah Cemetery, a granite bust of the magician staring down at them. He has inspired a Houdini Hall of Fame at Niagara Falls, New York, and a worldwide research committee has been formed to determine whether the “Handcuff King” was really born in Budapest, Hungary on March 24, 1874, or in Appleton, Wisconsin on April 6, 1874.

词汇	houdini
词源	Houdini. Someone who pulls a Houdini performs an amaz- ing disappearing act or escape, and a Houdini is anyone with seemingly magical powers in any field. The expressions lion- ize Eric or Ehrich Weiss (1875–1926), an American magician who adopted the stage name Harry Houdini. Houdini named himself after Jean Eugène Robert Houdin (1805–71), a cele- brated French magician noted for the fact that he did not at- tribute his feats to supernatural powers. Harry Houdini became world-famous for his escapes from “impossible traps” such as locks, handcuffs, and straitjackets while suspended high in the air, or chained in chests submerged under water—all tricks, it is said, that can be explained today. A magician’s ma- gician who invented many magic tricks, he exposed numer- ous spiritualists and other fraudulent performers. Houdini also wrote a number of books and left his extensive magic li- brary to the Library of Congress, where there is now a Houdi- ni Room. The supreme magician has become the object of al- most cult-like worship among fellow necromancers. Once he claimed that if anyone could break the shackles of death and contact the living from the grave, he could. Since his death— “He was fifty-two when he died, his life like a deck of cards”— followers have periodically held seances where he is buried in Glendale, New York in Machpelah Cemetery, a granite bust of the magician staring down at them. He has inspired a Houdini Hall of Fame at Niagara Falls, New York, and a worldwide research committee has been formed to determine whether the “Handcuff King” was really born in Budapest, Hungary on March 24, 1874, or in Appleton, Wisconsin on April 6, 1874.
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