By the middle of the sixteenth century, financiers and traders commonly accepted bills of exchange in place of gold or silver for other goods.

到了16世纪中叶，金融家和商人普遍接受汇票来代替黄金或白银进行商品交换。

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Frobisher, a sixteenth-century English explorer, had soil samples from Canada's Kodlunarn Island examined for gold content.

弗罗比舍是一位16世纪的英国探险家，曾对来自加拿大 Kodlunarn 岛的土壤样品进行了含金量检测。

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"WHEN good Americans die, they go to Paris," observed Thomas Gold Appleton, a Boston wit of the 19th century.

“善良的美国人去世后，他们的灵魂就升入巴黎。”19世纪的波士顿智者托马斯•金•阿普尔顿曾这样说。

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One red and gold carpet from the seventeenth century has complex patterns and animal designs.

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In 1993,Spiegler earned the gratitude of the Republic of Turkey for recovering 6th century gold and silver treasures which had been stolen by tomb raiders and eventually sold to New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art.

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