The United Kingdom was the prominent first case even though they had invented the gold standard hundreds of years earlier.

英国是著名的第一个放弃金本位的国家,即使它在几百年前,发明了金本位制度。

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So where we are standing at the moment has got bones under it from hundreds of years ago.

所以我们现在站的地方地下埋有几百年前的尸骨。

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Hundreds of years before the birth of Christ, Homer described the fate of the companions of Odysseus who were transformed by a witch into pigs.

在公元前几百年,荷马这样描述奥德赛的几个同伴的命运,一个女巫将他们变成了猪

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The history of banking often goes back only a matter of hundreds of years.

但是银行的历史通常只追溯到,大约数百年前

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Smallpox affected world history hundreds of years ago, and it was a disease that was common in Europe, but not common in the Americas until the Americas were colonized.

天花影响了几个世纪前的历史,这种病在欧洲很常见,但在美国不多见,直到美国成为殖民地

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Pax Romana This led to what we famously call the Pax Romana, "the Roman Peace," because you had the end of long, hundreds of years of civil wars and other wars, at least within Rome itself.

这导致了著名的，即“罗马和平“，因为长达几百年的，内战及大小战争终于结束了，至少在罗马本土结束了。

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that you know, the British stole over hundreds of years from different nations.

英国人几百年前从不同国家偷来的。

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Well, there's a formula that's been used by bond traders for hundreds of years and it's a traditional expression, which goes from the discount rate to the price.

这里有个债券交易商,用了上百年的公式,这是个传统表达式,它能用折扣率算得价格

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What you could do hundreds of years ago-- and can still do it today-- was go to a bank and present this bond or IOU and say, "What will you give me for it?"

在数百年前你们能做的,在今天还是能够做到的就是,到银行出示这份合约或欠条,问,你们根据它能给我多少钱

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So it goes back many hundreds of years but it's in rapid change now because of information technology.

因此经纪业已经有好几百年的历史,如今借助信息科技的发展,而迅速得到发展

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It's also about: how banks operate; what their function is in our society; and, why they are such important institutions that have gone back for hundreds of years and remain powerful, central features in our economy.

也会讲到,银行如何运作,银行在社会上的功能,以及为什么几百年来,银行依然在经济生活中拥有,重要的作用

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I like to tell that story because it sounds obvious that if you were a goldsmith hundreds of years of ago you would have probably become a banker -it would just be the natural thing to do.

我喜欢讲这个故事,因为这里面的道理很简单,如果你是几百年前的一名金匠,你很可能就会变成一个银行家,这是自然而然的事

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