人们在历史上曾经使用小麦或金银等贵重金属作为购买其它商品的交换媒介,也就是货币。这种交换媒介本身的内在价值相当于要交换的商品的价值。 但

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Networks get things done. Whether its sending a letter or lighting your home, networks make it happen. To get from Chicago to Santa Fe, we need to see the network of roads that will get us there. We see that Chicago is connected to St. Louis, which i

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Remember the good old days of TV andradio? Everyone would gather around to be entertained. Shows were broadcast atspecific times and if you werent there on time, you missed it. Broadcasts disappeared into the ether. Well, things have changed. This is

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Theinvestors see this and want a piece of the action, and this gives Wall Streetan idea. They can connect the investors to the homeowners through mortgages. Hereshow it works. A familywants a house, so they save for a downpayment, and contact the mor

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So why is there always enough money for the dinosaur economy, from big oil to bailouts for big banks, but when it comes to building a better future, were supposedly broke? Maybe its because these guys know how to ask for it. Their lobbyists and giant

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Well, first the military takes the biggest chunk, 726 billion dollars in 2011. Wow! We could build a lot of better future with that kind of money. Spending billions on fighter planes we don't need or wars with no end and then saying we're broke just

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Sometimes we dont have the money we need to accomplish a goal. Borrowing money can help, but if we arent aware of how the system works, it can create bigger problems for us. This is Borrowing Money in Plain English. Among friends, borrowing money see

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You remember what it was like in school. It was boring. You sat in class, memorized as much as you could and tried to pass a test at the end. But is that good enough? These days school can be more interesting and effective by focusing students on wor

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Good.What's the amount you'd like to change? 好。您要兑换多少呢? Five hundred pounds. By the way, what's the exchange rate for pound sterling? 500英镑。顺便问问,英镑兑换率是多少呢? Fine. How much would you like to excha

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Yes. And what kind of currency do you want to change? 好的。那么,您要兑换哪种货币呢? I want to exchange some sterling pounds for dollars. 我想将一些英镑兑换成美元。 What's it you wish to change? 您想要换什么? Wh

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You can hear this... 你可以听这个 How much do you like to change? 您要换多少钱? Do you like to know something about the exchange rate? 您要了解兑换率的情况吗? Some U.S. dollars, all right? 给您一些美元, 行吗? Give y

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C English Terms 中文翻译 详情解释/例子 CD 存款证 持有人可收取利息的存款证书。存款证设有到期日、固定利率,并可以用任何货币计价。存款证一般由商业

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Words and Their Stories: Wild Cat 词汇典故:Wild Cat Now, the VOA Special English program, Words and Their Stories. Today, we tell about the word wildcat. 现在是美国之音慢速英语词汇典故节目。今天我们来讲述关于wildcat的短

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AS IT IS 2016-01-04 Zimbabwe Switches to Yuan as Reserve Currency 津巴布韦将采用中国人民币作为其法定货币 Zimbabwe announced last week that it would shift to the Chinese yuan as its reserve currency. A reserve currency is a foreign

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货币之争可能扰乱贸易谈判 Protesters from U.S. trade unions and other free-trade skeptics say some nations manipulate the value of their currencies to give their exports an unfair price advantage on world markets,hurting American workers. 美

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Now, this is -- This is not just songwriters, 现在...不仅仅是歌曲作家, it's any creator of content, like art, like inventions, scientific discoveries, journalists. 任何形式的创作活动,比如美术,比如发明,科学发现,新

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Now Bambi Joyce is in China working on the proposed free trade deal. It's expected to be announced in November when the Chinese leaders visit Australia for the G20. Mr. Joyce told LightLine talks about the possible agreement have been positive so far

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Let's go to finance. Treasurer Joe Horkey says this weekend's G20 summit in Brisbane won't just be talk first. Mr. Horkey told us earlier he's determined to get a water tight commitment for his economic agenda. We have lied down a plan, a plan for gr

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英语学习笔记: Hong Kong Dollar 港元 Singapore Dollar 新加坡元 United States Dollar 美元 Canadian Dollar 加元 Australian Dollar 澳大利亚元 Danish Krona 丹麦克郎 Norwegian Krona 挪威克郎 Swedish Krona 瑞典克郎 Pound英镑

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To finance. Now the Reserve Bank has hinted it will cut interest rates next month, soaring in the month ahead, as the mining boom slows quicker than expected. Mr Stevens says the gloom over Europe's debt crisis is starting to ease, but he says produc

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