贪婪之梦8

歌曲 贪婪之梦8
歌手 英语听力
专辑 BBC经济学

歌词

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[00:05.90] The silver ore was ground up, refined with mercury and then shipped to Europe as bars and coins.
[00:15.97] Empire, it seemed, had made the Spanish Crown rich beyond the dreams of avarice.
[00:33.56] And yet, all the silver in the mines of Potosi couldn't halt the inexorable economic and political decline of Spain's Empire.
[00:42.00] Why was that, when Pizarro seemed to have struck it so incredibly rich?
[00:46.32] The answer is that the Spaniards had dug up so much silver to finance their wars of conquest
[00:51.69] that the metal itself suffered an extraordinary decline in value.
[00:56.39] More silver coins didn't make Spain richer,
[00:58.93] they simply made prices higher as an increased quantity of money chased the same amount of goods.
[01:05.20] What the Spaniards didn't get was that money is only worth what other people will give in exchange for it.
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歌词大意

[00:05.90] yín kuàng yùn dào dì miàn shàng hòu, jīng guò shuǐ yín tí chún, zuò chéng yín tiáo hé yín bì yùn wǎng ōu zhōu
[00:15.97] biǎo miàn shàng, duì yìn jiā de zhēng fú gěi xī bān yá huáng shì dài lái le chāo hū xiǎng xiàng de cái fù
[00:33.56] dàn bō tuō xī kuàng mài zhōng de bái yín, yī jiù wú fǎ è zhì xī bān yá dì guó zài jīng jì shàng hé zhèng zhì shàng de tuí shì
[00:42.00] wèi shí me pí sà luó lüè duó liǎo rú cǐ duō cái fù, xī bān yá hái huì luò dào zhè bān jìng dì?
[00:46.32] yuán yīn jiù shì, wèi le zhī chí tā men de dōng zhēng xī fá xī bān yá rén wā jué le tài duō de bái yín
[00:51.69] zhì shǐ yín jià dà fú xià diē
[00:56.39] dà liàng de yín bì méi yǒu shǐ xī bān yá fù yù qǐ lái
[00:58.93] fǎn ér ràng wù jià fēi zhǎng, gòu mǎi tóng yàng de huò pǐn, xū yào gèng duō de qián bì
[01:05.20] xī bān yá rén méi yǒu lǐ jiě huò bì de nèi zài jià zhí, yě jiù shì zhǐ yǒu dāng rén men rèn wéi zhí de de shí hòu, tā men cái yuàn yì kāi shǐ jiāo huàn