金融英語口語 4.Money (1)

[00:01.01]新單詞 [00:02.01]campus n. [00:02.66]校園 [00:03.32]sink v. [00:03.84]使陷入，使沉浸 [00:04.36]importance n. [00:05.26]重要性 [00:06.16]power n. [00:06.73]力量,權(quán)力 [00:07.29]gold n. [00:07.99]金 [00:08.70]silver n. [00:09.50]銀 [00:10.29]coper n. [00:10.92]銅 [00:11.55]nickel n. [00:12.07]鎳 [00:12.59]aluminium n. [00:13.39]鋁 [00:14.18]alloy n. [00:14.81]合金 [00:15.44]depict v. [00:16.10]描繪 [00:16.77]commemorative adj. [00:17.48]紀(jì)念性的 [00:18.18]mint v. [00:18.89]鑄造 [00:19.59]A:Today is such a fine spring day, let's take a walk after lunch. [00:21.69]A：今天真是美好的春天，陽光明媚。咱們午飯后去散散步吧! [00:23.80]B:Good idea. Let's go now. [00:25.01]B：好，走吧。 [00:26.23]A:Do you feel ourselves being sunk bit by bit in a sea of money, [00:28.17]A：你是否有這樣一種態(tài)度，我們?nèi)諒?fù)一日地正被浸泡在金錢中， [00:30.12]but we can't earn as much as accountants do. [00:31.46]但我們不可能掙得像會計師那么多。 [00:32.81]B:Yes, but what can we do to make money? [00:34.23]B：是啊，但假如我們要賺錢，那我們該去做什么呢? [00:35.66]A:I think it's too early to think about it now. There is no one who doesn't like money. [00:38.20]A：我想這個問題現(xiàn)在考慮為時過早。世上無人不喜歡金錢。 [00:40.75]B:Including us. [00:41.33]B：也包括我們。 [00:41.90]A :Ha, Ha, Ha, Ha!(laughing) [00:42.81]A：哈，哈，哈，哈! [00:43.73]B:Still in our daily life, I feel the importance of money and we know the power of it and will be dealing with money every day. [00:48.31]B：在日常生活中，我感到金錢的重要性，我們都知道金錢的能量，幾乎天天要同錢打交道。 [00:52.90]A:Do you know all the uses of the word 'money'? [00:54.24]A：你知道“money”這個詞的全部用法嗎? [00:55.59]B:No. [00:56.08]B：不知道。 [00:56.58]A:Does the word 'money' usually mean the bills we use every day to buy something? [00:58.74]A：“money”這個詞的含意是否指的是我們天天用來買東西的鈔票嗎? [01:00.89]B:Only bills? [01:01.65]B：僅僅是指鈔票嗎? [01:02.41]A:No, money is in two kinds, one is hard currency money and the other is paper. [01:05.52]A：不，貨幣有兩種，硬的貨幣和紙做的貨幣， [01:08.62]The former is called coins, a coin may be made of gold, silver, copper, aluminium... [01:12.10]前者稱為硬幣，硬幣可由于金，銀，銅，鎳和鋁等金屬鑄成， [01:15.57]usually metals are used as alloy. [01:16.72]一般都用作合金鑄造硬幣。 [01:17.87]B:In the museums we can see that Chinese copper money had a long history. [01:20.29]B：在博物館里我們可以看到中國使用的銅幣具有很悠久的歷史。 [01:22.70]A:Yes, the form of them changed. Copper coins were in use until Kuomintang time when the coin became round, [01:26.33]確實如此，但銅幣的形式在過去也在不斷變化，我國的銅幣一直使用到國民黨時代，這時銅幣成了圓形， [01:29.97]rather than having the square hole in the middle as in the Ching and Ming Dynasties. [01:32.20]不再像清明兩代用的銅幣中間留有一個方形空洞。 [01:34.43]B:How many kinds of coins were used then? [01:35.97]B：國民黨時代的硬幣有幾種? [01:37.52]A:My grandfather told me that when he was young, there were four kinds: [01:40.01]A：我的祖父告訴我說，在他小的時候當(dāng)時有4種硬幣流通， [01:42.50]a silver coin called yuan, on which was the head of Yuan Shikai and the other depicted Sun Yat-sen. [01:46.23]第一種是一元的銀幣，上面印鑄有袁世凱的頭像，另一種是印鑄有孫中山的頭像， [01:49.95]The people called them 'Yuan big head' and 'Sun big head' in Chinese. [01:52.63]人們把這兩種硬幣叫作袁大頭和孫大頭。 [01:55.30]The second was a 20-cent coin made of silver alloy. [01:57.24]第二種硬幣是兩角的合金銀幣。 [01:59.17]The third was a one-cent copper coin and my grandfather told me that he used another kind of copper coin to buy sweets. [02:02.92]第三種是一分錢的銅幣。爺爺還告訴我他當(dāng)時還用另一種銅幣買糖吃。 [02:06.67]B:What was its value? [02:07.63]B：那這種銅幣價值多大? [02:08.60]A:A one-cent copper coin could be exchanged for three copper coins. [02:10.66]A：當(dāng)時一分銅可兌換三枚“銅板”。 [02:12.73]B:How different from today! Nowadays there are six kinds of currency. [02:15.38]B：這同今天我們使用的硬幣大不一樣!今天我國市場上流通的有6種。 [02:18.03]The first is the one yuan coin, then fifty-cent piece, ten-cent piece, a five-cent piece, [02:21.51]第一種是一元硬幣，其次是五角硬幣，一角，五分， [02:24.98]two-cent piece and the smallest is the one-cent coin. Only the fifty-cent piece is golden in colour. [02:28.60]二分和最小值的一分硬幣。其中只有五角硬幣呈金黃色。 [02:32.22]A:Very well! But have you ever seen other kinds of big round gold coins? [02:34.41]A：很對，但你可見到過另外發(fā)行的大而圓的金幣嗎? [02:36.60]B:No, I have not seen them. [02:37.54]B：我還沒有見過。 [02:38.48]A:They are commemorative coins, one in honour of the world famous giant pandas, [02:40.93]A：那是紀(jì)念幣，一種是世界聞名的大熊貓命名的， [02:43.37]which live only in China, so China minted a Giant Panda Gold Coin. [02:45.69]這種動物僅生活在中國，所以我國專業(yè)些鑄造大熊貓金幣。 [02:48.02]The other is in honour of the XI Asian Games, China produced this special big gold coin to commemorate the holding of the XI Asian Games in China. [02:53.22]另一種是以十一屆亞運會命名的大金幣，為紀(jì)念該屆亞運會在中國的召開。 [02:58.42]It is worth fifty yuan and foreigners collect them. [02:59.75]它值50元人民幣。供外賓收藏。 [03:01.08]B:What a pity I haven't seen them! [03:02.41]B：沒有親眼目睹，真可惜! [03:03.75]A:Yes. Few Chinese has interest in these coins. [03:05.70]A：在中國僅有少數(shù)人對這兩種金幣發(fā)生興趣。

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