Buying shares may not seem very sophisticated, for instance, but when you buy a share you are lending money in exchange for a claim on the future profitability of a firm in, say, China.

举例来说，买股票看上去并不太复杂，但当你买股票时，你就等于将资金借给一家公司(例如说一家中国公司)，换取与该公司分享未来盈利的权力。

youdao

Editor: Is that an exchange? You must be bear and then you can get the money.

艺术经纬：这也算是一种交换啊，好像貌似必须要忍受一下，然后才能得到钱？

youdao

No, sir. You can pay in Foreign Exchange Certificate only. But you can get your money changed at the Foreign Exchange Counter of our hotel over there.

不能，先生。您只可以用外币兑换券。但是你可以在我们旅店那边的外币兑换台处兑换。

youdao

The problem is that when you take money in exchange for an item, you could be subject to sales tax.

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As soon as no one complains about not being able to exchange their property or work for coins and notes, that is the point when you have enough money in the economy.

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The narrowest measure of the money supply - in effect, cash on bank balance sheets - has risen by 58% since September, as you'd expect when the Bank is handing their customers all that freshly created money in exchange for the purchased gilts.

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