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金属货币
金属货币
金属货币(Metal Money):称量货币、铸币 铸币(Mint)是经过国家证明的、具有一定重量和成 色的、并铸成一定形状的货币金属块 优势:易分割、质地均匀、...
... wish earnestly 渴望 take back (sth. that has been said)收回 metal money 硬币 ...
But if you have much of it, metal money is hard to carry around.
但是你有太多时,金属货币不方便带在身上。
Metal money was certainly better than salt or shell or stone money.
金属的货币当然要比盐或是贝壳的或是石头的货币好。
Recyclers can make money from selling scavenged metal from electronic equipment, says Puckett, but the process to retrieve usable metals is typically extremely toxic.
Puckett说,回收商销售从电子设备中清除出的金属而从中获利,但是找出有用的金属的工艺过程是非常有害的。
Workers stand outside stores, ringing a bell and collecting money in a red metal kettle from shoppers passing by.
VOA : special.2009.11.02
Now,you will need a common nine-volt battery and a metal piece of money.
VOA : special.2010.12.08
With his money and scientific genius, he creates an almost indestructible, flying,metal suit of armor.
VOA : standard.2010.05.19
This problem explains why metal money has circulated not in lumps but as coins, with a regulated amount of metal in each coin.
It was state intervention, not the private market, that made metal specie work as money.
Interesting, too, is how often our love of horsepower and swooping sheet metal crops up when money doesn't matter.