| 单词 | john company |
| 释义 | > as lemmasJohn Company John Company n. now historical (a personification of or humorous name for) the (English or British) East India Company. [After Dutch Jan Kompanie, Jan Compagnie, a name for the Dutch East India Company, and subsequently the Dutch government, in the Dutch East Indies. The Dutch name probably arises from the use of the personal name as a generic, as in English (see sense 1), the use being transferred to a corporate entity referred to familiarly as though an individual. The following probably shows an (early) after-the-fact rationalization of the name: 1785 G. Forster tr. A. Sparrman Voy. Cape Good Hope II. 21 The ignorant Hottentots and Indians not having been able to form any idea of the Dutch East-India Company,..the Dutch from the very beginning in India, politically gave out the company for one individual powerful prince, by the christian name of Jan or John... On this account I ordered my interpreter to say farther, that we were the children of Jan Company, who had sent us out to view this country. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > business affairs > a business or company > [noun] > companies involved in specific business > trading in specific place company1599 East India Company1608 South Sea Company1708 EIC1730 John Company1782 north-west1837 1782 Parker's Gen. Advertiser 3 June The neglect of Messieurs North and the Directors of John Company. 1832 F. Marryat Newton Forster III. iv. 46 John Company will some day find out the truth. 1886 E. Lynn Linton Paston Carew ii He was offered a position in India, in the service of John Company, under whose flag, as we know, the pagoda-tree was worth shaking. 1920 N. L. Hallward (title) William Bolts, a Dutch Adventurer Under John Company. 2010 M. Dillon China (2012) ii. 31 It was Britain's East India Company,..or ‘John Company’ as it was known familiarly, that played the most important role in the opening of China to Western trade. < as lemmas |
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