One day these are multimillion-dollar war machines and the next they are museum pieces.

这些如今价值数百万美元的战争武器，明天就会进入历史的博物馆。

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On the eve of the first world war, Eichengreen shows, the Dutch guilder, Belgian franc and Austrian schilling were all more important as reserve currencies than the dollar.

埃森格林指出，第一次世界大战爆发前夕，荷兰盾、比利时法郎和奥地利先令都是比美元更重要的储备货币。

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And Mexican businesses worry about the world currency "war" : the peso is appreciating against the dollar and, recently, against the yuan, thanks to capital inflows.

墨西哥商业人士担心世界开打货币战：目前，由于资本流入，比索较美元及人民币都在升值。

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The 1976 Games had left Montreal with a billion-dollar debt and the games were tarnished by Cold War boycotts of the 1980 Moscow and 1984 Los Angeles games.

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Russian and U.S. experts alike agree that SDI was decisive in stimulating reforms and arms reductions, ending the Cold War peacefully, and bringing Americans the trillion-dollar peace dividend which became the basis of our post-Cold War economic boom.

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But that short-lived experiment didn't work, and during World War II the dollar's tie to gold was reaffirmed by the Bretton Woods international monetary system.

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The currency war has been mostly fought between the dollar and euro.

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