Wall Street
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- a street at the south end of Manhattan, where the New York Stock Exchange and other leading American financial institutions are located华尔街(曼哈顿区南端的一条街, 纽约证券交易所及美国其他主要金融机构所在地)。
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- used allusively to refer to the American money market or financial interests华尔街(喻指美国货币市场或金融界)。
词源
named after a wooden stockade which was built in 1653 around the original Dutch settlement of New Amsterdam.