In eighteen ninety, when the Silver Purchase Act was passed, the government held almost two hundred ninety million dollars in gold.

VOA: special.2010.06.17

It's that the pounds of gold plus the pounds 8 of silver plus the pounds of raisins is no greater than eight.

就是金的磅数加上银的磅数,加上葡萄干的磅数不大于,所以我已经找到了。

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Yeats represents that moment of consummation as the plucking of the silver and the gold apples.

叶芝用采撷银苹果和金苹果,来表现这一极致的时刻。

耶鲁公开课 - 现代诗歌课程节选

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

Everything -- gold, silver, diamonds, particles -- everything accelerates the same way in a gravitational field, due to this remarkable fact.

所有东西,金,银,钻石,粒子,所有东西,在引力场作用下都以相同的方式加速,原因就是这个显著的事实

耶鲁公开课 - 基础物理课程节选

The Treasury Department would buy the silver with new paper money that could be exchanged for silver or gold.

VOA: special.2010.06.17

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。

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

The great wealth taken from the gold and silver mines was usually invested in other businesses: shipping,railroads,factories, stores,land companies.

VOA: special.2010.03.18

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

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

VOA: special.2010.06.17

Here, the gold and silver apples are specifically alchemical symbols of body and soul, and a kind of mystical image of earthly paradise.

这里银苹果金苹果具体指,身体和灵魂魔法上的象征，是古时天堂的一种形象。

耶鲁公开课 - 现代诗歌课程节选

In the United States in the early eighteen hundreds, fifteen ounces of silver had the same value as one ounce of gold.

VOA: special.2010.06.17

In Section III below, Yeats says, "Get all the gold and silver that you can"-- "Provide, provide!" But just as in Frost, this strategy isn't going to work.

在第三节里，叶芝说，获得你能获得的黄金和白银-,请拿出来，请拿出来！，但正像弗罗斯特，这个方法行不通。

耶鲁公开课 - 现代诗歌课程节选

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

VOA: special.2010.06.24

And isn't that clear already from their colors, the material that they're made of Gold and silver, these colors marked them as fashioned, precious objects, inorganic, and in all these ways beyond time and nature, growth or decay.

从它们的颜色上很容易知道，制作它们的材料,金银说明它们是,特制的珍贵的物件，非自然生长的，这些都是超越时间自然,不会生长或衰亡。

耶鲁公开课 - 现代诗歌课程节选

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

Then the relative price of gold versus silver shifted to the point that the gold with at the twenty-one shilling exchange rate the gold shilling was worth less the gold guinea was worth less than twenty-one shilling.

之后，金子相对于银子的相对价格,就移动到另一个值,在二十一个先令的兑换率下,金先令价值少于,金几尼的价值少于了二十一个先令的价值。

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

At that time, both gold and silver were used to support the value of the American dollar.

VOA: special.2010.06.24

The debate over gold and silver was especially important because of an economic depression that began in the United States in eighteen ninety-three.

VOA: special.2010.07.01

That it was necessary to stop - for a while - all payments in gold or silver.

VOA: special.2009.01.01

The extra gold increased the supply of money in the same way silver would have increased it.

VOA: special.2010.07.01

Many other Americans wanted the United States to support its money with both gold and silver.

VOA: special.2010.07.01

Bryan said the United States should continue to make and use both gold and silver money.

VOA: special.2010.06.24

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

VOA: special.2009.01.01

For many years, the United States and other nations used both gold and silver as money.

VOA: special.2010.06.17

Land was almost free. Some people wanted to find gold or silver and become rich.

VOA: special.2010.03.10

New discoveries of gold and silver now were leading men to Colorado, Arizona and Nevada.

VOA: special.2009.05.28

Should the United States support its currency with gold or with gold and silver?

VOA: special.2010.07.01

To stop this, President Jackson ordered gold or silver payments only for government land.

VOA: special.2009.01.01

The Republican Party also was divided over the issue of gold and silver.

VOA: special.2010.07.01