Wait a minute. What do you mean by gold?

等一下。你说的黄金是什么意思？

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"Big pieces of jewellery mean high gold content, but that is no longer affordable," said Prabhu Thakkar, a gold trader based in Mumbai's Jhaveri Bazaar, a wholesale market for gold and silver.

孟买黄金及引批发市场雅韦里市场的一名黄金商人普拉布·撒克说：“一大件首饰就就意味着含有大量黄金，现在人们已经支付不起了。”

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Traditionally, that meant insisting that any rise in the price of gold would mean the end of Western civilization.

传统上，这意味着黄金价格持续升高将会终结西方文明。

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That means that you no longer have the right to get it but that doesn't mean they don't still own gold; it's just sitting there in their vaults from way back.

那意味着你没有权利得到它,但那不意味着他们没有金子；,只是他们仅仅坐在自己的金库中。

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The old gold standard was supposed to maintain the convertibility of gold in currency but now we're not even backing it with currency anymore with gold anymore ? so what does it mean?

旧的金本位制度目的在于,保持金子与货币的转换功能,但是现在我们甚至都,不用货币来支持它了，或是用金子,所以这意味着什么呢？

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