In order to keep the currency convertible they had to keep interest rates high to prevent people from demanding the gold.

为了保持货币的转换性,他们不得不将利率提高,以防人们向他们索求金子的兑换。

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When the date came, you would cut the coupon off and go to the bank and get your interest payment.

到息日到了以后，你就可以剪下这张息票拿到银行,去兑换利息。

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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。

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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。

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