Everyone wanted gold. They took their paper money and their silver to the government and exchanged them for gold.

VOA: special.2010.06.17

A lot of people would ask them, since they had a safekeeping for gold, could you put my gold in your safe?

因为他们可以妥善保管金子,所以很多人上前询问,你能不能帮我保存我的金子呢

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

I have some old records and I'll see what I'm paying for my gold for the gold fillings ten years ago.

我有一些旧的记录,我可以去看看十年前,我到底补金牙时为了金子花了多少钱。

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

He was a mine manager in Leadville who developed a way to safely mine for gold deeper than before.

VOA: special.2010.03.08

Now, the strategy here is pretty clear. As often is for the continuous problem. What's the strategy? I pour in the gold till I run out of gold.

现在我们的战略已经很明显了,对连续性问题战略是怎么样的？,我先把所有金子,装进去。

麻省理工公开课 - 计算机科学及编程导论课程节选

All of them produced large amounts of paper money -- many times the amount they could exchange for gold or silver.

VOA: special.2009.01.01

So you build it with a material like silver and gold, and then you encounter the problems of society that your bridge might get stolen because somebody thinks they have a better use for silver and gold than your bridge.

但如果你用金或银这样的材料,你又会面对新的问题,你的桥会被偷走,因为有人认为金和银有比造桥更好的用途

耶鲁公开课 - 生物医学工程探索课程节选

During those long summer days, The Luck was carried up the mountain to the place where the men were digging for gold.

VOA: special.2009.06.06

Now Mr. Milton took some risks when he separated himself from his cash and lent money to his clients, or lent more money to his clients than the collateral, the gold, was actually worth. And the motive for that risk, of course, the motive for that investment, was the expectation of a profit.

但是弥尔顿先生却冒着把自己和他的现金,也丢了的风险，或者借出去的钱比担保财产还要多，他这么投资的动机是，希望获得收益。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

I decided the best plan was to search for gold in the great deserts of the American Southwest.

VOA: special.2010.07.10

Let's choose Latin, the language of scholarship, and so iron became Fe for ferrum and lead became Pb for plumbum and gold is Au for aurum and so on.

那就选拉丁文吧，用于学术的语言，所以，iron就变成了Fe，表示铁元素,铅变成了，Pb，表示铅元素,金变成了Au，表示金元素，等等。

麻省理工公开课 - 固态化学导论课程节选

I spent almost a year searching for gold with another former soldier, Captain James Powell, also of Virginia.

VOA: special.2010.07.10

So, not only did Professor Sayer, who's in the Chemistry Department who put together this contraption for all of you, not only did she magnify the size of these gold nuclei, but she actually had to smoosh all of these atoms closer together then they normally would be.

化学系的Sayer教授把这些玩意放到一起，她不仅把金原子核的,尺寸放大了,还把原子核的间距压缩了,事实上，如果原子核的尺寸有这么大,我们需要另一个大教室，放这个原子核。

麻省理工公开课 - 化学原理课程节选

The government would pay for the silver with paper money -- treasury notes -- which could be exchanged for gold or silver money.

VOA: special.2010.06.03

Before that the United States went through repeated banking crises when people would start demanding the gold for their notes.

才有了中央银行，在这之前,当人们向银行索要金子来兑现他们的纸币时,美国经历了一次又一次的重蹈覆辙的银行业危机。

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

Other men,also looking for gold, had reached the Stanislau hills of California many years before I did.

VOA: special.2009.07.04

There were people goldsmiths were people who worked in the metal gold and made beautiful things for people jewelry and other things.

有人，比如金匠就是是,铸造金的形状,并且为人民铸造美丽的东西的一群人,包括珠宝和一些其它的东西。

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

We slept on the hard ground, ate canned beans from cold metal plates and spent our days in the difficult search for gold.

VOA: special.2009.07.04

That means you could go to a bank and demand gold and the bank then could go to the Federal Reserve and get gold for it.

这意味着你可以走进一家银行,索要金子，然后那家银行可以,去联邦储备银行得到这部分金子。

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

Gold was discovered there. Treaties and religion meant nothing to the white miners who rushed to the Black Hills to search for gold.

VOA: special.2010.04.08

Bank failures occur when there's not enough gold in the vault and then people start asking for the gold and the goldsmith banker doesn't have it to give out.

当金库没有足够的黄金时,银行就会倒闭,因为当人们开始索要黄金时,金匠银行家却拿不出来

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

He noted how people throughout the nation had been exchanging their paper money and silver for gold.

VOA: special.2010.06.24

Meanwhile, when people come back to ask for their gold, as long as they're willing to take other gold, that's apparently what they -they don't care whether they are the same coins.

同时,当人们回来取金子的时候,只要他们愿意拿到其他的金子就行了,非常明显,他们不介意这些金币是不是原来的那些

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

Many of those who went west to search for gold stayed to become farmers or storekeepers.

VOA: special.2009.05.28

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

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

In the spring of 1837, the demand on banks for gold and silver grew too heavy.

VOA: special.2009.01.01

They never kept all the gold for all the dollars that they issued so you could say it's still backed by gold. The really important thing is it's not convertible into gold.

他们从不持有所有的发行过的,货币价值的金子，所以你可以说它是,被金子支持的，真正重要的在于,它不能转换成金子。

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

When he was twenty-one, he went to search for gold in Alaska and Canada.

VOA: special.2010.05.21

They also had mules to ride, and picks and pans to search for gold.

VOA: special.2010.04.25

The banks stopped honoring their promises to exchange their paper money for gold.

VOA: special.2009.01.01