The U.S. Is actually an important country for regulation because it has been a model for much of the regulations around the world.

在监管方面,美国确实是一个重要的国家,美国的监管制度已成为各国的模板

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What it was it began the first country to adopt the gold standard officially was the United Kingdom and that was in 1717.

它是什么---它开始于,第一个官方正式地采取金本位制度的国家,是英国，那时是1717年。

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What happened in the 1930s was that one country after another abandoned the gold standard.

在二十世纪三十年代发生的是,一个接连一个的国家放弃了,金本位制度。

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So England became on the gold standard.

于是，英国成为了一个金本位制度的国家。

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You wonder, you know, maybe they're over imitating; maybe we were just lucky or maybe it was because the U.S. was the first, in some ways, to develop some of these financial institutions-- or one of the first.

你会怀疑,也许他们的模仿过于盲目,美国的成功,也许源于运气,也许从某方面来说,美国是第一个建立这些金融制度的国家,或者说是首批之一

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