英语词汇“chinese wall”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

Chinese wall n. [after the defensive wall built between China and Mongolia in the 3rd cent. b.c.] (a) transferred and figurative an insurmountable barrier (to understanding, etc.); (b) Stock Market a prohibition against the passing of confidential information from one department of a financial institution to another.

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society > trade and finance > stocks and shares > [noun] > prohibition on passing information

Chinese wall1907

the world > action or operation > difficulty > hindrance > [noun] > one who or that which hinders > a hindrance, impediment, or obstacle > insurmountable or impenetrable

brick wall1571

firewall1578

iron curtain1819

blank wall1904

Chinese wall1907

1907 C. J. Bullock Sel. Readings in Econ. xx. 672 The cheap prices of its commodities are the heavy artillery with which it batters down all Chinese walls.

1934 T. S. Eliot Elizabethan Ess. 22 After the erection of the Chinese Wall of Milton, blank verse has suffered not only arrest but retrogression.

1941 W. H. Auden New Year Let. ii. 34 They fought over their premises, Shut out from Eden by the bar And Chinese Wall of Barbara.

1941 A. Koestler Scum of Earth 269 It succumbed..to a social phenomenon, which it might be appropriate to call the ‘Chinese Wall psychosis’.

1979 Amer. Banker 25 Jan. 5/3 The Chinese Wall question has been raised anew. But the Morgan spokesman says the bank sees no conflict.

1984 National Westm. Bank Q. Rev. Nov. 36 The increase in risk of conflict of interests arising from the conglomeration of financial activities can be contained by erecting ‘Chinese Walls’ among the various activities carried out by a single firm.

单词	chinese wall
释义	> as lemmas Chinese wall Chinese wall n. [after the defensive wall built between China and Mongolia in the 3rd cent. b.c.] (a) transferred and figurative an insurmountable barrier (to understanding, etc.); (b) Stock Market a prohibition against the passing of confidential information from one department of a financial institution to another. ΘΚΠ society > trade and finance > stocks and shares > [noun] > prohibition on passing information Chinese wall1907 the world > action or operation > difficulty > hindrance > [noun] > one who or that which hinders > a hindrance, impediment, or obstacle > insurmountable or impenetrable brick wall1571 firewall1578 iron curtain1819 blank wall1904 Chinese wall1907 1907 C. J. Bullock Sel. Readings in Econ. xx. 672 The cheap prices of its commodities are the heavy artillery with which it batters down all Chinese walls. 1934 T. S. Eliot Elizabethan Ess. 22 After the erection of the Chinese Wall of Milton, blank verse has suffered not only arrest but retrogression. 1941 W. H. Auden New Year Let. ii. 34 They fought over their premises, Shut out from Eden by the bar And Chinese Wall of Barbara. 1941 A. Koestler Scum of Earth 269 It succumbed..to a social phenomenon, which it might be appropriate to call the ‘Chinese Wall psychosis’. 1979 Amer. Banker 25 Jan. 5/3 The Chinese Wall question has been raised anew. But the Morgan spokesman says the bank sees no conflict. 1984 National Westm. Bank Q. Rev. Nov. 36 The increase in risk of conflict of interests arising from the conglomeration of financial activities can be contained by erecting ‘Chinese Walls’ among the various activities carried out by a single firm. extracted from Chineseadj.n. < as lemmas
随便看	i'll say so i'll secure you i'll see i'll see etc hanged first i'll see hanged first i'll see what i can do i'll see you i'll see you around i'll see you damned first i'll see you dead first i'll see you etc i'll see you etc first i'll see you further i'll see you further first i'll see you hanged first i'll see you in hell first i'll see you later i'll see you shot first i'll see you soon i'll see you tomorrow i'll see you when i see you i'll see your —— and raise you i'll survive i'll tell the world i'll tell you what

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