The United Kingdom was the prominent first case even though they had invented the gold standard hundreds of years earlier.

英国是著名的第一个放弃金本位的国家,即使它在几百年前,发明了金本位制度。

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So where we are standing at the moment has got bones under it from hundreds of years ago.

所以我们现在站的地方地下埋有几百年前的尸骨。

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If you ask someone a couple hundred years ago ? what's the essence of a bank?

如果你问一个几百年前的人,银行的本质是什么？

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The expected life spans increased dramatically in the last couple of hundred years until now, for people that were born when you were born you can expect to live to be 80 years old, a doubling in life span, fairly dramatic.

从几百年前到现在,预期寿命显著增长了,你们同期出生的那批人,能够活到八十岁,预期寿命增长了一倍,令人印象深刻

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that you know, the British stole over hundreds of years from different nations.

英国人几百年前从不同国家偷来的。

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Why are people living longer than they did just a few hundred years ago?

为什么现在的人,比仅仅是几百年前的人活得更久

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I like to tell that story because it sounds obvious that if you were a goldsmith hundreds of years of ago you would have probably become a banker -it would just be the natural thing to do.

我喜欢讲这个故事,因为这里面的道理很简单,如果你是几百年前的一名金匠,你很可能就会变成一个银行家,这是自然而然的事

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