| 单词 | chinese wall |
| 释义 | > as lemmasChinese 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. < as lemmas |
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