It's not poets who are crowned with gold as they learn the song no other men could learn.

不是那些颁予金冠冕的诗人,因为他们学的歌是其他人无法学的。

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It would happen to anyone who was a goldsmith because it's just the logical extension of the business.

任何一个金匠都会想到这个点子,因为这就是的这种业务必然的演变结果

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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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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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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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I like to tell that story because it sounds obvious that if you were a goldsmith hundreds of years of ago you would have probably become a banker -it would just be the natural thing to do.

我喜欢讲这个故事,因为这里面的道理很简单,如果你是几百年前的一名金匠,你很可能就会变成一个银行家,这是自然而然的事

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Incidentally, we have a problem set, which I want you to start today and it will be due not in a week this time, because we have Martin Luther King Day coming up, but it will be due the Monday following that.

顺便说一句,我们有一套习题,我希望你你们从今天就开始做,不要求下个礼拜交,因为马丁·路德·金日要放假,等放完假后的礼拜一交

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