喜樂美語
  1. 1n/ˈwɑːl striːt/ · /ˈwɔːl striːt/the street in New York（紐約）華爾街

    A short street at the southern end of Manhattan in New York City. America's main stock exchange and many of its biggest banks have had offices there for a long time, and that is why the name came to stand for money.

    這是最原始的意思：曼哈頓南端一條真的街。它很短，只有幾個街區。比大部分人想像的窄。紐約證券交易所就在這條街上。附近一百多年來都是銀行和券商的地盤。觀光客會走過去拍照。其他的用法都是從這個地點長出來的。所以先把這條街的畫面記住，後面的意思就好懂。

    示範例句 · Example

    We walked down Wall Street and took a photo outside the stock exchange.

    中文翻譯我們走過華爾街，並且在證券交易所外面拍了一張照片。

    This is the plain map sense: a real road you can walk down. It is only a few blocks long and narrower than most visitors expect. The New York Stock Exchange stands on the corner, and banks and trading firms have filled the streets around it for well over a century. Almost every other use of the name grows out of this one place, so it helps to picture the street first and the money world second.

    常見搭配

    • walk down Wall Street

      走在華爾街上

      to go along the actual street

      You can walk down Wall Street in about five minutes.

    • at the end of Wall Street

      在華爾街的盡頭

      at one end of the real road

      There is an old church at the end of Wall Street.

    用法接近

    Manhattanthe New York Stock ExchangeLower Manhattan

  2. 2n/ˈwɑːl striːt/ · /ˈwɔːl striːt/the US stock market華爾街（美國股市）

    The American stock market, spoken about as one thing. When people say Wall Street, they mean the buying and selling of American shares and the way prices there rise and fall.

    Wall Street 本來是紐約的一條街。美國最大的銀行和證券交易所都在那一帶。久了之後，這個街名就被拿來代表整個美國股市。新聞說 Wall Street fell，講的是股價下跌，不是那條路。介系詞通常用 on：prices fell on Wall Street。這種「用地點代表整個行業」的說法，英文新聞很愛用。看到它的時候，先把它當成「美股大盤」來讀，句子多半就通了。

    Wall Street is a real street, and the American stock exchange and many big banks sit on or near it. English borrows the street name to talk about the market as a whole. So 'Wall Street fell' is not about the road; it is about share prices going down. The usual preposition is on: prices rise or fall on Wall Street. News writing leans on this a lot, because it lets one short name stand for thousands of companies and traders at once.

    常見搭配

    • on Wall Street

      在美國股市上

      in the American stock market

      Share prices rose sharply on Wall Street.

    • Wall Street closed higher / lower

      美股收高／收低

      the market finished the day up or down

      Wall Street closed lower for the second day.

    • Wall Street analysts

      華爾街分析師

      the people whose job is to study American shares

      Wall Street analysts expected a smaller number.

    意思相近

    the US stock marketthe marketsthe Street

    用法接近

    stock marketshare pricesthe Dow

原始詞典資料2 筆記錄

以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，摘錄並精簡格式，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。

Wall Streetname/ˈwɔːl stɹiːt/

  • 1

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

    • The causes of income stagnation are varied and lack the political simplicity of calls to bring down the deficit or avert another Wall Street meltdown.
  • 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

摘錄自 英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary，已精簡格式；依 CC BY-SA 4.0 授權使用，改動後的內容同樣以此授權提供。