单词 | great depression |
释义 | > as lemmasGreat Depression Great Depression n. the major worldwide economic depression that began in 1929.The Depression is regarded to have been precipitated by the Wall Street crash of October 1929; cf. Black Thursday n. Different national economies subsequently emerged from the Depression at different times.In quot. 1930 not a fixed collocation. ΚΠ 1930 N.Y. Times 30 Dec. 20 The present year's shrinkage..indicates the extent to which the railways have suffered with other industries in the great depression. 1934 L. Robbins Great Depression i. 11 There have been many depressions in modern economic history but..there has never been anything to compare with this. 1929 to 1933 are the years of the Great Depression. 1960 L. A. Fiedler Love & Death in Amer. Novel xii. 456 Though the peculiar, wholesale horror of the great wars has eluded our greatest fictionists..the terror of the great Depression has fared better. 1984 S. Terkel Good War (1985) Introd. 6 The Great Depression was our most devastating experience since the Civil War. Somewhere along the line, our money machine had stripped its gears. 2011 Independent 11 Feb. (Viewspaper section) 13/3 During the Great Depression of the 1930s, bankrupt residents of the dustbowl states (the ‘Okies’ of Oklahoma and ‘Arkies’ of Arkansas) regarded California as a sort of promised land. < as lemmas |
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