If you go to a savings bank, or a savings and loan, or a commercial bank and you say, I want to open up a checking account--that's a deposit; or, I want to open up a saving account--that's a deposit.

如果你去一个储蓄银行或者商业银行，去储蓄或者贷款，你说，我想开个支票账户，这就是储蓄;,或者说我先开个存款账户，这就是储蓄。

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You used to get checks in the mail; now you go on a website and you'll see that your dividends are credited to your account, but money is growing in your account as companies pay out dividends.

你过去习惯于通过挂号信取得支票,现在你登陆网站,就能看到股利自动分发到你的账户,公司支付了股利,帐户中的金额就会增加

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