Bankruptcy
['bæŋkrʌptsɪ] or ['bæŋkrʌptsi]
解釋/意思:
(noun.) a legal process intended to insure equality among the creditors of a corporation declared to be insolvent.
(noun.) inability to discharge all your debts as they come due; 'the company had to declare bankruptcy'; 'fraudulent loans led to the failure of many banks'.
(noun.) a state of complete lack of some abstract property; 'spiritual bankruptcy'; 'moral bankruptcy'; 'intellectual bankruptcy'.
辛迪校對--From WordNet
解釋/意思:
(n.) The state of being actually or legally bankrupt.
(n.) The act or process of becoming a bankrupt.
(n.) Complete loss; -- followed by of.
編輯:洛拉
同義詞及近義詞：
n. Insolvency.
手打:斯蒂芬
例句/造句/用法:
- If I did as you wish me to do, I should be bankrupt in a month; and would my bankruptcy put bread into your hungry children's mouths? 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪麗.
- Yes--poverty, misery, bankruptcy. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪麗.
- His name had been proclaimed as a defaulter on the Stock Exchange, and his bankruptcy and commercial extermination had followed. 威廉·梅克比斯·薩克雷. 名利場.
- In 1889 the company went into bankruptcy and operations were suspended until the new Panama Canal Company was organized in 1894. 佚名. 神奇的知識之書.
- Bankruptcy is, perhaps, the greatest and most humiliating calamity which can befal an innocent man. 亞當·斯密. 國富論.
- So sudden and so great a bankruptcy, we should in the present times be apt to imagine, must have occasioned a very violent popular clamour. 亞當·斯密. 國富論.
- All her lies and her schemes, and her selfishness and her wiles, all her wit and genius had come to this bankruptcy. 威廉·梅克比斯·薩克雷. 名利場.
- They declared him at the Stock Exchange; he was absent from his house of business: his bills were protested: his act of bankruptcy formal. 威廉·梅克比斯·薩克雷. 名利場.
- The old man walked very slowly and told a number of ancient histories about himself and his poor Bessy, his former prosperity, and his bankruptcy. 威廉·梅克比斯·薩克雷. 名利場.
- Bankruptcy may come when it lists. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪麗.
- Two or three great bankruptcies in a mercantile town, will bring many houses to sale, which must be sold for what can be got for them. 亞當·斯密. 國富論.
- Bankruptcies are most frequent in the most hazardous trades. 亞當·斯密. 國富論.
- But if the common returns were sufficient for all this, bankruptcies would not be more frequent in these than in other trades. 亞當·斯密. 國富論.
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