The United Kingdom was the prominent first case even though they had invented the gold standard hundreds of years earlier.

英国是著名的第一个放弃金本位的国家,即使它在几百年前,发明了金本位制度。

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If you ask someone a couple hundred years ago ? what's the essence of a bank?

如果你问一个几百年前的人,银行的本质是什么？

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Why are people living longer than they did just a few hundred years ago?

为什么现在的人,比仅仅是几百年前的人活得更久

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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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