She said, "I must spin this straw into gold, and I know not how."

她说：“我必须把这根稻草纺成金子，可我不知道该怎么做。”

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It was once thought that lead could be transmuted into gold.

有人曾经认为铅可以变成黄金。

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He touched his bed with his finger and the bed was turned into gold.

他用手指碰了碰他的床，床变成了金子。

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When they had gathered all the supplies, the gold seekers then faced the extremely hard trip into Canada.

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So it might, if men had not found out" and here's her phrase worth remembering-- "a fearful alchemy by which this blood can be transformed into gold.

如果人们还没意识到的话,的确应该这样,这里有一段应该记住,"那是一种可怕的炼金术,将鲜血血炼成黄金

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And they will marry into it. And some people are gold digger,

他们将会因为婚姻而成为其中的一员。有的人是掘金者，

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Frequent traders are jumping into gold and other metals because they see it as a momentum play.

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Heavy daily flows into gold, silver and foreign markets show the path of capital flight.

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The best documented way of stabilizing the dollar is to restore its convertibility into gold.

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