| 单词 | south sea bubble |
| 释义 | > as lemmasSouth Sea bubble South Sea bubble n. now historical a speculative boom in the shares of the South Sea Company in 1720 which ended with the failure of the company and a general financial collapse (cf. South Sea scheme n.). ΘΚΠ society > trade and finance > stocks and shares > [noun] > specific scheme South Sea1711 South Sea scheme1720 South Sea bubble1723 1723 T. Bradbury 28 Serm. xiii. 171 You saw the French Folly [in the Mississippi Whim] before you begun your own [the South-Sea Bubble]. 1771 Encycl. Brit. III. 632/2 Things were in this situation, when..the South Sea bubble was projected. 1874 Friend 9 May 299/2 The South Sea bubble was only the greatest among a crowd of great bubbles. 2003 N.Y. Rev. Bks. 12 June 68/4 Jones is extremely illuminating about the ‘bubble’ which the Scottish financier John Low promoted in France in 1718–1720 (just before Britain's South Sea bubble). < as lemmas |
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