Yet the dollar standard is one of the most vulnerable pillars of global stability. And the world is far from ready for America to ditch its global financial role.

然而，美元本位制却是最脆弱的全球稳定支柱中的一根，而且这个世界也还远未对美国放弃其全球金融角色做好准备。

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Sure, sure, we've all heard the standard dollar-a-drink rule.

这个自然，我们都听过标准的花钱买酒的规矩。

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They believed the gold standard would keep the value of the dollar high.

VOA: special.2010.06.17

Under the gold standard your dollar bill represented so many ounces of gold and you were supposed to be able to always get that gold.

在金本位制度下,你的纸币表示着,很多盎司的金子,并且你可以一直兑换那些金子。

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A gold standard,they said, would keep the value of the dollar high.

VOA: special.2010.07.01

Yet the drift to the dollar standard was somehow judged as a sign of progress.

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If the global trend continues for the next 20 years, then global growth in the 21st century will ring in at a clip superior to the historic period we call the Great Dollar Standard Era from the breakdown of Bretton Woods in 1971 through the palliative Y2K freakout.

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Its call for a commission to study the feasibility of returning the U.S. dollar to the gold standard appeals to the coveted Independents very much, not to mention parts of the Democratic voter base.

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