They could get together and say we are writing a new rule on how these gold proceeds can be used, but no one has taken the initiative to start to make that happen."

VOA: standard.2009.04.20

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。

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Because the Bank of England could then demand all the it could start accumulating notes from some issuing bank and then demand payment in gold.

因为英格兰银行那时可以,要求所有的，它可以开始从一些纸币发行银行,收集些发行的纸币之后再要求以金子的形式偿还。

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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

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