歌曲 | 贪婪之梦10 |
歌手 | 英语听力 |
专辑 | BBC经济学 |
[00:00.30] | |
[00:02.00] | If the phrase sounds familiar, then it should. |
[00:04.98] | Just take a look at a £20 note. |
[00:10.05] | Bank notes have next to no intrinsic worth. |
[00:13.22] | They're simply promises to pay, just like the clay tablets of ancient Babylon four millennia ago. |
[00:21.67] | On the back of the $10 bill it says, "In God We Trust". |
[00:27.10] | But it's not really God you're trusting in. |
[00:30.47] | By swapping your goods or your labour for a fistful of these things, |
[00:34.50] | you're trusting the US Treasury Secretary not to repeat Spain's mistake and produce so many of the damn things |
[00:41.25] | that by the time you come to spend them, they're worth even less than the paper they're printed on. |
[00:46.22] |
[00:00.30] | |
[00:02.00] | If the phrase sounds familiar, then it should. |
[00:04.98] | Just take a look at a 20 note. |
[00:10.05] | Bank notes have next to no intrinsic worth. |
[00:13.22] | They' re simply promises to pay, just like the clay tablets of ancient Babylon four millennia ago. |
[00:21.67] | On the back of the 10 bill it says, " In God We Trust". |
[00:27.10] | But it' s not really God you' re trusting in. |
[00:30.47] | By swapping your goods or your labour for a fistful of these things, |
[00:34.50] | you' re trusting the US Treasury Secretary not to repeat Spain' s mistake and produce so many of the damn things |
[00:41.25] | that by the time you come to spend them, they' re worth even less than the paper they' re printed on. |
[00:46.22] |
[00:02.00] | rú guǒ jué de zhè gè shuō fǎ hěn shú xī, nà jiù duì le |
[00:04.98] | jiù xiàng 20 yīng bàng chāo piào shàng xiě de yí yàng |
[00:10.05] | yín háng piào jù jī hū méi yǒu nèi zài jià zhí |
[00:13.22] | tā men zhǐ shì chéng nuò fù kuǎn, yǔ sì qiān nián qián gǔ bā bǐ lún de nián tǔ kuài fā huī de shì yí yàng de zuò yòng |
[00:21.67] | zài 10 měi yuán zhǐ bì hòu miàn xiě zhe" wǒ men xiāng xìn shàng dì" |
[00:27.10] | dàn qí shí rén men xiāng xìn de gēn běn bú shì shàng dì |
[00:30.47] | nǐ tōng guò jiāo huàn wù pǐn huò láo dòng, huò dé yī dá chāo piào |
[00:34.50] | nǐ xiāng xìn de shì měi guó cái zhèng bù zhǎng, tā bú huì chóng dǎo xī bān yá de fù zhé, bú huì làn fā zhǐ bì |
[00:41.25] | ràng zài nǐ huā qián de shí hòu, zhèi xiē chāo piào hái bù rú yìn shuā tā men de zhǐ zhāng yǒu jià zhí |