指产品离开生产过程尚未进入消费过程，处于流通领域内的储备，亦称“商品储备”。它包括成品储备及供销储备。
这是一个设在美联储的资本储备，由财政部通过销售新的国债提供资金，但该账户的过剩资本是“受困”的，并不会立即变为流通货币。
This is a capital reserve in the Fed financed by the Treasury selling new debt, but its excess capital is "trapped" and does not immediately reach currency in circulation.
为抵消这些额外的流通，中央银行向商业银行卖出有价证券从而遏制外汇储备的增加。
To offset this extra liquidity, the bank “sterilised” the increase in foreign reserves by selling securities to banks.
虽然欧元从2002年才开始流通，但自从1991年1月1日发行以来，就已经成为世界上仅次于美元的第二大储备货币。
Since the currency's launch on January 1, 1999 (though it only began to circulate as a currency in 2002), the euro has become the world's second largest reserve currency, after the U.S. dollar.
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