Traditionally, commercial banks did not deal with the general public; they were for wealthy people and business people.

早期的商业银行并非面向公众,而是为富人和商人提供服务的

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The Bank of England has been providing an example for the world for a long time.

英格兰银行一直在很长时间内,为世界各地的银行提供了例子。

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The bank will discount it.

银行会为你计算贴现

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I mentioned earlier that we used to be on the gold standard and central banks were gold standard institutions that were trying to stabilize the economy but subject to the constraint that they had to maintain convertibility with gold but those central banks' role has changed a lot.

直至改变,我之前提到,我们过去是以金本位为基础的,并且中央银行也是以金本位为基础的机构,它们试图稳固经济,但是也在,保持金子的转换功能约束下。

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