“The Great Swindle: The Story of the South Sea Bubble”, by Virginia Cowles, Collins, 1960

“大骗局：南海泡沫的故事”，Virginia Cowles著，Collins， 1960

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The South Sea Company had no real business so its shares had no value, save for the cash raised by their issue.

南海公司没有实际的业务，除去发行募集来的现金，其股票没有价值。

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They were quickly followed by chancers and adventurers who were able to make fortunes by devising their own version of the South Sea Bubble.

投机者和冒险家们很快闻风而至，通过策划另一个版本的“南海泡沫”(South Sea Bubble)，这些人得以发家致富。

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Scientists used to think that the islands were connected to the South American mainland and floated out to sea slowly.

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The isolation of the Greek towns in the Dark Age gives way increasingly to contact with the east and the south, and when I say the south I really mean Egypt and all around the eastern Aegean Sea.

在黑暗时代孤立希腊城镇,开始逐渐增加与东方和南方的接触,当我的南方,实际上指的是埃及,以及所有东爱琴海的周边地区

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Yellow fever is found mainly in Africa, the northern part of South America and the islands of the Caribbean Sea.

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The South Sea and Mississippi bubbles of the early 1700s are legends in financial history.

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After the South Sea Bubble burst in 1720, a ban on setting up joint stock companies lasted for 100 years.

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In the early 18th century both Britain and France experienced a mania for stocks, which led to the South Sea and Mississippi bubbles.

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