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新單詞
campus n.
校園
sink v.
使陷入，使沉浸
importance n.
重要性
power n.
力量,權力
gold n.
金
silver n.
銀
coper n.
銅
nickel n.
鎳
aluminium n.
鋁
alloy n.
合金
depict v.
描繪
commemorative adj.
紀念性的
mint v.
鑄造
A:Today is such a fine spring day, let's take a walk after lunch.
A：今天真是美好的春天，陽光明媚。咱們午飯后去散散步吧！
B:Good idea. Let's go now.
B：好，走吧。
A:Do you feel ourselves being sunk bit by bit in a sea of money,
A：你是否有這樣一種態度，我們日復一日地正被浸泡在金錢中，
but we can't earn as much as accountants do.
但我們不可能掙得像會計師那么多。
B:Yes, but what can we do to make money?
B：是啊，但假如我們要賺錢，那我們該去做什么呢？
A:I think it's too early to think about it now. There is no one who doesn't like money.
A：我想這個問題現在考慮為時過早。世上無人不喜歡金錢。
B:Including us.
B：也包括我們。
A :Ha, Ha, Ha, Ha!(laughing)
A：哈，哈，哈，哈！
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.
B：在日常生活中，我感到金錢的重要性，我們都知道金錢的能量，幾乎天天要同錢打交道。
A:Do you know all the uses of the word 'money'?
A：你知道“money”這個詞的全部用法嗎？
B:No.
B：不知道。
A:Does the word 'money' usually mean the bills we use every day to buy something?
A：“money”這個詞的含意是否指的是我們天天用來買東西的鈔票嗎？
B:Only bills?
B：僅僅是指鈔票嗎？
A:No, money is in two kinds, one is hard currency money and the other is paper.
A：不，貨幣有兩種，硬的貨幣和紙做的貨幣，
The former is called coins, a coin may be made of gold, silver, copper, aluminium...
前者稱為硬幣，硬幣可由于金，銀，銅，鎳和鋁等金屬鑄成，
usually metals are used as alloy.
一般都用作合金鑄造硬幣。
B:In the museums we can see that Chinese copper money had a long history.
B：在博物館里我們可以看到中國使用的銅幣具有很悠久的歷史。
A:Yes, the form of them changed. Copper coins were in use until Kuomintang time when the coin became round,
確實如此，但銅幣的形式在過去也在不斷變化，我國的銅幣一直使用到國民黨時代，這時銅幣成了圓形，
rather than having the square hole in the middle as in the Ching and Ming Dynasties.
不再像清明兩代用的銅幣中間留有一個方形空洞。
B:How many kinds of coins were used then?
B：國民黨時代的硬幣有幾種？
A:My grandfather told me that when he was young, there were four kinds:
A：我的祖父告訴我說，在他小的時候當時有4種硬幣流通，
a silver coin called yuan, on which was the head of Yuan Shikai and the other depicted Sun Yat-sen.
第一種是一元的銀幣，上面印鑄有袁世凱的頭像，另一種是印鑄有孫中山的頭像，
The people called them 'Yuan big head' and 'Sun big head' in Chinese.
人們把這兩種硬幣叫作袁大頭和孫大頭。
The second was a 20-cent coin made of silver alloy.
第二種硬幣是兩角的合金銀幣。
The third was a one-cent copper coin and my grandfather told me that he used another kind of copper coin to buy sweets.
第三種是一分錢的銅幣。爺爺還告訴我他當時還用另一種銅幣買糖吃。
B:What was its value?
B：那這種銅幣價值多大？
A:A one-cent copper coin could be exchanged for three copper coins.
A：當時一分銅可兌換三枚“銅板”。
B:How different from today! Nowadays there are six kinds of currency.
B：這同今天我們使用的硬幣大不一樣！今天我國市場上流通的有6種。
The first is the one yuan coin, then fifty-cent piece, ten-cent piece, a five-cent piece,
第一種是一元硬幣，其次是五角硬幣，一角，五分，
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幣。其中只有五角硬幣呈金黃色。
A:Very well! But have you ever seen other kinds of big round gold coins?
A：很對，但你可見到過另外發行的大而圓的金幣嗎？
B:No, I have not seen them.
B：我還沒有見過。
A:They are commemorative coins, one in honour of the world famous giant pandas,
A：那是紀念幣，一種是世界聞名的大熊貓命名的，
which live only in China, so China minted a Giant Panda Gold Coin.
這種動物僅生活在中國，所以我國專業些鑄造大熊貓金幣。
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.
另一種是以十一屆亞運會命名的大金幣，為紀念該屆亞運會在中國的召開。
It is worth fifty yuan and foreigners collect them.
它值50元人民幣。供外賓收藏。
B:What a pity I haven't seen them!
B：沒有親眼目睹，真可惜！
A:Yes. Few Chinese has interest in these coins.
A：在中國僅有少數人對這兩種金幣發生興趣。
