That means that you no longer have the right to get it but that doesn't mean they don't still own gold; it's just sitting there in their vaults from way back.

那意味着你没有权利得到它,但那不意味着他们没有金子；,只是他们仅仅坐在自己的金库中。

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The old gold standard was supposed to maintain the convertibility of gold in currency but now we're not even backing it with currency anymore with gold anymore ? so what does it mean?

旧的金本位制度目的在于,保持金子与货币的转换功能,但是现在我们甚至都,不用货币来支持它了，或是用金子,所以这意味着什么呢？

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