英语词汇speculator的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

词汇	speculator
词源	speculator. The first speculators in the U.S. to be called spec- ulators did business during the Revolutionary War boom, though there was no formal stock exchange at the time and wheeling and dealing was done in coffeehouses along Wall Street in downtown Manhattan, or outside. The word specula- tor has its roots in the Latin speculatus, observed, watched.
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