"stock exchange," 1570s, burse, from Old French borse "money bag, purse" (12c.), from Medieval Latin bursa "a bag" (see purse (n.)). French spelling and modern sense of "exchange for merchants" is first recorded 1845, from the name of the Paris stock exchange. The term originated because in 13c. Bruges the sign of a purse (or perhaps three purses), hung on the front of the house where merchants met.
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1. So should a respectable bourse be offering the stock?
那么,一家可敬的交易所应该发行这只股票 吗 ?
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2. You can open countless capital account in different bourse.
你可以在不同的交易所开设无数个资金账户.
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3. They stormed into the Bourse and set its main hall on fire.
他们冲进证券交易所,放火把大厅烧着了.
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4. Until then, Shanghai's bubbly bourse will likely remain what it is today: an internal affair.
在这之前, 上海充满泡沫的股票交易所将保持今天的样子: 国内事件.
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5. The top 40 companies on the Paris bourse have been pulling in record profits.
