The reason that countries dropped the gold standard was that under the effort to keep the currency convertible into gold they were worsening the depression of the 1930s.

这些国家放弃金本位制度,的原因在于，伴随着保持,货币与金子的转换功能,三十年代的大萧条正在被加深。

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