Ponzi scheme是什么意思

双语例句

(1)But don't call it a Ponzi scheme.

但不要称此为庞氏骗局。

(2)Sounds a bit like a Ponzi scheme, right?

这听起来有点像庞氏骗局，是不是这样呢？

(3)There's the Ponzi scheme answer, of course.

当然还有庞氏骗局式的答案。

(4)In other words, it was a classic Ponzi scheme.

换句话说，这就是一个庞氏骗局。

(5)A Ponzi Scheme That Would Make Bernie Madoff jealous.

使伯尔尼。麦道夫嫉妒的庞氏骗局。

释义

n.

a form of fraud in which belief in the success of a non-existent enterprise is fostered by the payment of quick returns to the first investors from money invested by later investors

庞氏骗局（用后来投资者的钱来给予早先投资者以快速回报，以此培养对一个并不存在的企业成功的信心）。

词源

"named after Charles Ponzi （died 1949）, who carried out such a fraud （1919—20）."