In 2004 I visited one that used to make refrigerators. Its workers had stripped it of everything valuable, then torched it so thoroughly that the warehouse was a sculpture of buckled sheet metal.

2004年，我到访了一家生产冰箱的工厂，工人们拿走了一切值钱的东西，然后放火烧了整座工厂，烧剩的厂房成了一座由金属片搭成的雕塑。

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Investors in Asia who want a piece of the gold rally don't have to search very far to get their hands on the valuable metal.

那些希望在黄金涨势中分一杯羹的亚洲投资者，他们要买到黄金并不需要走很远。

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Because gold has been universally regarded as a very valuable metal, national currencies were for many years judged in terms of the so-called 'gold standard'.

由于黄金已被广泛的认为是非常有价值的金属，国家货币长期以来都是由称之为“金本位制”来决定的。

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Though her ambition always tolled in the background, she had come to respect him, for his unstudied fairness, his gaiety, his integrity and openness, which was as plain and light and valuable as a metal unknown in her world.

NEWYORKER: In Other Rooms, Other Wonders

But archaeologists do know the consequences of rogue treasure hunters armed with metal detectors descending on a valuable site.

BBC: Watching the detectorists