The British pound was twenty shillings so effectively the pound was on a silver standard.
英国一英镑值二十先令,所以事实上,英镑是以银本位为标准的。
Yeah, well, my little, nice, small basement flat apparently would go for 600,000 pounds, which is...
是的,显然地,我那个小的、漂亮的地下室公寓可以卖到600,000英镑,这简直是……
It pays another pound two years from now, it pays another pound three years from now.
从现在起的第二年需要支付第二个一英镑,从现在开始的第三年需要支付第三个一英镑
In Manchester, you can find like same quality with like 70 pounds or like 65.
在曼彻斯特,你可以花七十或者六十五英镑,住同样条件的地方。
The stall sellers, "Two for a pound!" all that sort of Cockney, rhyming doodah.
小摊的商贩会喊,“一英镑两个!”全是那种伦敦佬押韵的吆喝。
you'd look around ten to fifteen thousand pounds a year, per child.
你需要准备一万到一万五英镑一年,这只是一个小孩的学费。
a flat like that would go for maybe 300,000 pounds.
一间像这样的公寓可能会卖到300,000英镑。
They called them, the nickname was "Ten Pound Poms"
人们称这样的人群为“十英镑一个的英国人”,
and it's massive, massive, hundred millions of pounds refurbishment.
它非常宏伟,非常巨大,是一个几百万英镑的翻新工程。
One thinks, in a way, of Welles' line in The Third Man : when he looks down from above and says, "If I gave you 20,000 pounds for every dot that stopped moving, "? would you really tell me to keep my money?"
从某一层面看来,可以假想,Welles,在《黑狱亡魂》中的台词,当他从高处往下看并说,“如果你干掉一个在下面走动的人,我就给你,20,000,英镑,你拒绝得了吗“
In 1931 they dropped convertibility of the pound sterling still called pound sterling even though it's not silver it was gold.
在1931年,他们放弃了英镑的可兑换性,仍然叫做英镑的话,即便它不是银,而是金。
That's what I wanted to do because I said I'd have a hundred pounds to invest.
这正是我想做的,因为我说过,我将要投资一百英镑
What is the present value of that? Well, the first-- each payment we'll call a coupon-- so it pays one pound one year from now.
那么它的现值又是多少呢,首先,每一次支付的数额称为一个券息,从现在开始每一年都要支付一英镑
We call them consols because, in the early 1700s, the British Government issued what they called consols or consolidated debt of the British Crown that paid a certain amount of pound sterling every six months forever.
我们称之为公债是因为早在十八世纪初,英国政府规定他们称之为英国皇家,统合公债或者联合公债,要求永久性地,每六个月支付一定数量的英镑
Some Arab Sheikh just paid one hundred million pounds for that apartment-- that penthouse apartment-- in that building and the same Sheikh is ordering a Airbus for his-- one of these big Airbus airplanes-- for his personal plane and he's having it plated with gold leaf.
某位阿拉伯的酋长花了一亿英镑,买了那套公寓里的顶层套间,这个酋长还订了架空客,就是那种大型空客,作为私人飞机,还镀上了金叶子
Remember, I said I'm doing this because I expect to have a hundred pounds-- I said one dollar-- I'm going to have to pay out a hundred pounds because this one-period bond, worth one hundred pounds principal, is coming due so I have to pay it out.
回想一下,我说过我会这么做,是因为我会得到一百英镑,我口误说成了一美元,我将要偿还的数额是一百英镑,因为这张一年期,一百英镑面值的债券即将到期,于是我不得不将其支付
0 thousand just for one room's wallpaper.
四万英镑就只为一间屋子的墙纸。
Let's say that the British Government didn't say that they'll pay one pound per year, but it'll be one pound the first year, then it will grow at the rate g and it will eventually be infinitely large.
我们假设英国政府并没有说,他们会每一年支付一英镑,但它会是第一年支付一英镑,然后它会顺着利率g上涨,最后它就变成了无尽大的数目
This limo driver told me this yesterday; he said it's going to cost him five hundred million pounds or something like that to do this.
那个司机昨天是这么跟我说的,他说他得花五亿英镑,才能买到
They dropped the pound convertibility.
于是他们放弃了英镑的可兑换性。
The present value of this--suppose it pays-- let's say it pays c pounds each year, so it would be c times this.
它的现值就是...假设它需要支付,我们假设它每年支付c英镑,然后这里也乘以c
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