金融英语辅导：银行的基本功能与业务(词汇详解)

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　　1.Banks were developed to keep people’s money safe and to make it available when they needed it.开办银行是为了稳妥地保管人们的钱财，使他们在需要时能随时提取。  
　　(1)此句中的动词不定式短语to keep people’s money safe和to make it available作目的状语。  
% P% d# m0 m- E" X* b0 |' P　　(2)to keep people’s money safe:使人们的钱财安全  
6 W* t  ]! `; s* k: E# T　　keep:to cause to continue in a state, condition, or course of action:维持：使…保持某一状态、情况或过程的动作  
. }% ]% ]; [* c　　例如:attempt to keep the patient calm.  
1 y3 _9 W% K5 w　　试图使病人镇静  
　　(3) to make it available:使存款随时可取  
　　①make:to cause to act in a specified manner:造成，导致：以特定的方式引起行动  
5 g( S' E9 x- Q& B, A" P. F& k　　例如:Heat makes gases expand.  
6 i, A5 r# ]' ]8 _6 n　　热使得气体膨胀  
+ r# m9 \2 Y! _* r' E( G+ g# P　　②it代表money  
% R: Z( ^# T8 F) s3 b' K　　③available:adj.present and ready for use; at hand; accessible:现实可用的；可获得的  
/ G/ \7 L# \$ E5 t　　2.It isn’t convenient for him to send money through the mail, so he goes to the bank and opens a checking account.通过邮局汇款使他感到不方便，因此，他到银行开了一个支票账户。  
　　此句中的it为形式主语, 真正的主语是for him to send money…。  
3 r- O* c# ?! P" i0 z　　3.This check is as good as money to the owner of the company. 这张支票对公司的老板来说就跟真正的货币一样。  
　　①good money:真的货币  
  q$ V. G! d6 Z　　②as good as:与……几乎一样; 实际上等于  
8 u$ X. [0 h0 K" X5 [% c7 i5 v　　4.It’s hard to imagine that people could do business without the services of a bank.很难想象出人们在没有银行服务的情况下做生意的情形。  
! S7 [, @0 I6 R  `2 ~) k　　①此句中的it是形式主语, 真正的主语是to imagine that…。  
; n0 S1 U6 |" h  C* A+ V3 X　　②连词that引导宾语从句。