English Dictionary

tulipomania

名詞

不可算名詞

Enthusiasm for tulips, as in a period in the Dutch Golden Age during which contract prices for bulbs of the recently introduced tulip reached extraordinarily high levels and then suddenly collapsed.

日本語の意味

チューリップに対する過熱した熱狂、特にオランダ黄金時代においてチューリップの球根が異常な高騰と急落を遂げた現象を指す。 / 17世紀のオランダで見られた、チューリップに対する狂熱的な関心や投機的なブームを意味する。

Historians often cite tulipomania as an early example of a speculative bubble that reveals human irrationality.

歴史家はしばしばチューリップ熱を初期の投機的バブルの例として挙げ、人間の非合理性を示すものだと論じる。

意味（1）

Enthusiasm for tulips, as in a period in the Dutch Golden Age during which contract prices for bulbs of the recently introduced tulip reached extraordinarily high levels and then suddenly collapsed.

Certainly one of the best illustrations of the fantastic in the motley variety of items that avarice might seize for its own is the tulipomania that swept over the Netherlands in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries.