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But the nickel’s negative Seigniorage is even worse than the pennies.
但是五分硬幣的負(fù)鑄幣利差比便士還更嚴(yán)重。
Each nickel costs the US mint 10 cents to produce, also, some of us are pretty attached to pennies for whatever reason, nostalgia, and then those collectors.
美國鑄幣廠每制造一枚五分硬幣要花10分錢，還有，我們中一些人出于某種原因，比如懷舊和收藏，對便士青睞有加。
And people, if they see a penny on the sidewalk, they’ll pick it up and think: it is my lucky day!
而且，如果人們在路上看到了一分錢，他們會把它撿起來然后想著：“今天是我的幸運(yùn)日！”
Another scenario is that, without pennies, merchants, instead of charging 4.98, might round up the price to an even five dollars.
另一個(gè)情況是，沒有了一分錢硬幣，商人們不會標(biāo)價(jià)4.98美元，而是可能甚至把價(jià)格四舍五入提高到五美元。
So consumer goods would become slightly more expensive, but on the other hand, some cash transactions would be more convenient for consumers.
所以消費(fèi)品會變得稍貴一些，但是從另一方面來看，對消費(fèi)者來說一些現(xiàn)金交易會更方便。
And as I said, the government would save money if pennies were eliminated.
而且就像我說過的，如果淘汰了便士，政府能省下不少錢。
But wouldn’t the copper industry suffer financially if the US government stopped buying copper to make pennies?
但是如果美國政府不再購買銅來制作便士了，銅業(yè)不就有經(jīng)濟(jì)損失了嗎？
But how much copper do pennies actually contain?
但是便士中究竟含了多少銅呢？
How much...Oh, got it, right.
多少......哦，我知道了，沒錯(cuò)。
So what else comes to mind when you think about copper? What else is copper used for?
那么，提到銅你還能想到別的什么？銅還有什么用處？
I know that copper can be shaped into all sorts of things: sheets, tubing, my cousin’s house has a copper roof.
我知道銅能做成各種東西：銅片、管子，我表哥的房子有一個(gè)銅做的屋頂。
Yes, like gold and silver, copper is extremely malleable, but it’s not a precious metal, it’s far less expensive than gold or silver.
是的，和黃金白銀一樣，銅的可塑性極強(qiáng)，但它不是貴金屬，比黃金白銀便宜多了。
It’s also a superb conductor of electricity so you can stretch it into wires which go into appliances and even car motors.
它也是一種極好的導(dǎo)電體，所以你可以把它抻拉成電線，裝進(jìn)電器甚至汽車引擎里。
Copper also has superior alloying properties, it’s...you know, when it’s combined with other metals.
銅的合金性質(zhì)也很優(yōu)越，也就是它能和其他金屬結(jié)合在一起。
