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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What happened in the 1930s was that one country after another abandoned the gold standard.

在二十世纪三十年代发生的是,一个接连一个的国家放弃了,金本位制度。

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So the gold standard ended in the 1930s and every country dropped it.

所以，三十年代，金本位制度结束,每个国家都放弃使用它。

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The United States dropped it in 1933 and other countries did it later.

然后1933年，美国放弃了金本位制度3,其他国家也在此之后也相继放弃。

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The reason that countries dropped the gold standard was that under the effort to keep the currency convertible into gold they were worsening the depression of the 1930s.

这些国家放弃金本位制度,的原因在于，伴随着保持,货币与金子的转换功能,三十年代的大萧条正在被加深。

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