Wall Street

短语

华尔街 [经] 华尔街

发音

UK /ˈwɔːl stɹiːt/
AU
US /ˈwɔl ˌstɹit/
US /ˈwɑl-/

释义与例句

name
  1. 1.

    American financial institutions or financial markets as a whole; (by extension) big-business interests.

  2. 2.

    The street that traditionally has been a principal locus for those entities and whose name is metonymically extended to refer to them.

    Holonyms: Manhattan < New York < New York < United States < North America < Earth, World

词源

From wall + street. The term is the name of a street in Manhattan, New York City, New York, U.S.A., where the palisade of New Amsterdam was once located. The street is known for the many major U.S. financial institutions located there.

来源：wiktionary