金融英语学习：Money(2)

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　　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.
# j: U# A, {/ y7 g3 _" @0 J　　B：在日常生活中，我感到金钱的重要性，我们都知道金钱的能量，几乎天天要同钱打交道。
3 i0 r! n9 y; ?# C8 k' x% s) F9 l　　A:Do you know all the uses of the word 'money'?
　　A：你知道“money”这个词的全部用法吗？
　　B:No.
　　B：不知道。
　　A:Does the word 'money' usually mean the bills we use every day to buy something?
1 q+ W0 N$ N% q& I　　A：“money”这个词的含意是否指的是我们天天用来买东西的钞票吗？
　　B:Only bills?
　　B：仅仅是指钞票吗？
3 z6 b" K% z$ K, u# p6 F　　A:No, money is in two kinds, one is hard currency money and the other is paper.
9 |* H! y; H# u　　A：不，货币有两种，硬的货币和纸做的货币，
& }& N8 X( u7 j5 R9 m: }2 v9 d　　The former is called coins, a coin may be made of gold, silver, copper, aluminium...
　　前者称为硬币，硬币可由于金，银，铜，镍和铝等金属铸成，
　　usually metals are used as alloy.
　　一般都用作合金铸造硬币。
  q" V" ^% A0 S# K  v7 C% ^　　B:In the museums we can see that Chinese copper money had a long history.
　　B：在博物馆里我们可以看到中国使用的铜币具有很悠久的历史。
/ k  V  E6 S/ u- o3 w　　A:Yes, the form of them changed. Copper coins were in use until Kuomintang time when the coin became round,
( j4 R  t4 q' ^( V3 n$ q$ j　　确实如此，但铜币的形式在过去也在不断变化，我国的铜币一直使用到国民党时代，这时铜币成了圆形，
4 _& h  X/ m8 o4 h& j: }　　rather than having the square hole in the middle as in the Ching and Ming Dynasties.
$ [+ K6 t1 \+ j　　不再像清明两代用的铜币中间留有一个方形空洞。
! \6 w* ]; D( u　　B:How many kinds of coins were used then?
　　B：国民党时代的硬币有几种？
　　A:My grandfather told me that when he was young, there were four kinds:
4 ^, N3 m/ w5 Y　　A：我的祖父告诉我说，在他小的时候当时有4种硬币流通，
　　a silver coin called yuan, on which was the head of Yuan Shikai and the other depicted Sun Yat-sen.
7 K/ @) |2 Y7 {# @　　第一种是一元的银币，上面印铸有袁世凯的头像，另一种是印铸有孙中山的头像，
　　The people called them 'Yuan big head' and 'Sun big head' in Chinese.
　　人们把这两种硬币叫作袁大头和孙大头。
　　The second was a 20-cent coin made of silver alloy.
  W4 Z7 n  X6 Z! R6 h6 c% J　　第二种硬币是两角的合金银币。
　　The third was a one-cent copper coin and my grandfather told me that he used another kind of copper coin to buy sweets.
　　第三种是一分钱的铜币。爷爷还告诉我他当时还用另一种铜币买糖吃。
　　B:What was its value?
　　B：那这种铜币价值多大？
　　A:A one-cent copper coin could be exchanged for three copper coins.
　　A：当时一分铜可兑换三枚“铜板”。
　　B:How different from today! Nowadays there are six kinds of currency.
2 M0 Q0 a4 ?% t0 T/ B% D5 p$ \7 v　　B：这同今天我们使用的硬币大不一样！今天我国市场上流通的有6种。
　　The first is the one yuan coin, then fifty-cent piece, ten-cent piece, a five-cent piece,
　　第一种是一元硬币，其次是五角硬币，一角，五分，
1 T8 a; X3 f" n" a9 G　　two-cent piece and the smallest is the one-cent coin. Only the fifty-cent piece is golden in colour.
　　二分和最小值的一分硬币。其中只有五角硬币呈金黄色。
　　A:Very well! But have you ever seen other kinds of big round gold coins?
　　A：很对，但你可见到过另外发行的大而圆的金币吗？
+ B; j- c: F* f2 I3 `: n. g　　B:No, I have not seen them.
　　B：我还没有见过。
5 ^  x& @3 ^. |% B　　A:They are commemorative coins, one in honour of the world famous giant pandas,
　　A：那是纪念币，一种是世界闻名的大熊猫命名的，
9 D' k5 O$ d- m% n' W2 O　　which live only in China, so China minted a Giant Panda Gold Coin.
* ^( I* O& b4 f8 t5 M　　这种动物仅生活在中国，所以我国专业些铸造大熊猫金币。
  y5 m2 P4 ?/ V* [/ d) d1 m" C　　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.
　　另一种是以十一届亚运会命名的大金币，为纪念该届亚运会在中国的召开。
" O/ t" _0 x. p1 [7 T　　It is worth fifty yuan and foreigners collect them.
　　它值50元人民币。供外宾收藏。
　　B:What a pity I haven't seen them!
　　B：没有亲眼目睹，真可惜！
　　A:Yes. Few Chinese has interest in these coins.
) n4 T! z& m3 L: [. G2 Z　　A：在中国仅有少数人对这两种金币发生兴趣。