Saying the Senate stands at a historic moment, Dodd took note of the fact that the final bill is not all that many Democrats hoped it would be, but said it is a foundation that will be improved upon.

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You still have to hide the note from theft, but at least you don't have to hide a whole bunch of gold from theft.

你仍然需要小心藏好票据防止被偷走,但是至少你不用,再藏一堆金子了

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Well,you can just--an engineer will just sit there and isolate that second of sound and then give a "times three" command and "boom," well,look at Pavarotti hold out that note.

嗯，你可以想象，工程师会只坐在那里，分离出的第二个声音,然后给了三拍命令和砰“,好吧，看帕瓦罗蒂能拖出那个音。

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That's how paper money got started, as bearer notes, because if you had gold with the goldsmith you could spend the note, at least within the town that you live in where the goldsmith was known and had a reputation.

纸币就以不记名票据的形式出现了,如果你的金子存在金匠那里,你可以直接支出这些票据,至少在你所居住的城镇可以这样做,因为金匠在本地有着并众所周知的信誉

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