People now define ownership as managing the decline of a physical asset.

如今，人们将所有权定义为控制实物资产的减少。

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Commodities, as a physical asset, are a store of value and consequently a natural hedge against inflation, and should perform well in that environment.

作为一种有形资产，大宗商品是一种价值储存手段，因此也是天然的通胀避险工具，在上述环境下，大宗商品应会有良好的表现。

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Yet we know that Austen lived in an age when a woman's physical attractiveness was, next to her fortune, her greatest asset.

但是我们知道，在奥斯汀生活的时代，女人的相貌近次于她最大的资本——财富的。

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In the case of education, for example, a teachers' wages would come under current expenditure, while building a new school - a physical asset which will last a long time - would be classed as capital.

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Comer says BarCap also plans to expand into gold storage as part of its services for customers who want to hold a stake in the physical asset.

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For a start the index funds buy futures a contract to buy or sell an asset at a future date not the physical good.

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