The history of banking often goes back only a matter of hundreds of years.

但是银行的历史通常只追溯到,大约数百年前

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It's a new form of monetary policya new invention which we've been doing only for a matter of months now.

这是一种新的货币政策形式一个新的发明,我们刚刚采用了几个月而已。

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They only had the occasion in a kind of formless matter upon which they could adopt and impose any form they took.

他们仅有的是,在一种无形物质中的机遇,在其中他们能采纳,并强加任何他们喜欢的形式。

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