工商管理专业英语4 Unit 3 货币 20150317.ppt

English Course for Business Administration 工商管理专业英语 Unit 3 Money Unit 3 Money It is difficult to define money without knowing what it does. 如果不知道金钱能干什么，很难给它定义。 Let’s start with a working definition: 先让我们从实际用途给它下定义吧： Money is something that people accept as payment for goods or service. 　　金钱是用来支付商品和服务的。 This working definition draws attention to a basic requirement for anything that serves as money. 这个定义引起了人们对作为金钱的任何东西基本需求的关注。 It must be generally acceptable to those who are exchanging goods and services in markets. 它必须能被在市场上交换商品及服务的人们普遍接受。 If you go into a store and buy some socks or rent a vidio, chances are you pay with dollar bills, or Federal Reserve notes. 如果你到商店买袜子或者租录像带，你就得付美元钞票或联邦储备券。 Paper money has been used in the US for nearly 300 years, since colonial times. 从殖民时期, 纸币在美国已使用了近300年。 The paper by itself is worth only a few cents, but you know you can exchange the bills for goods and services in stores, restaurants, and theaters. 纸币用的纸本身只值几美分，但是你要知道你能用它在商店、餐馆和剧院换取商品和服务。 Other people are willing to accept these prices of paper in trade for goods and services because they know they can, in turn, spend the money and pass it on to someone else. 因为他们知道钱能花，别人也要，所以其他人也愿意在交换商品和服务中接受它。 in turn 依次，轮流，反过来 pass on to sb. 传递给…… If you believed that no one would take the money, you wouldn’t be interested in having it. If everyone thought the money was worthless, no one would take it. 如果你认为没人愿意要钱，那你对有钱就不感兴趣了。如果大家都认为钱没什么用，那就没人要了。 Then it really would be worthless because it couldn’t be used to buy anything. 因为钱不能用来买东西，那么钱就真的一文不值了。 Money has value because it is accepted as the means of exchange. 作为交换的手段被人们所接受，金钱才有了价值。 In societies that have only a few goods, trade can be carried out fairly easily. 在商品极少的社会里，交易比较容易。 Certain tribes of pygmy hunters in Zaire trade ivory from their elephant hunts for the metal they need to make arrows and spears. 在扎伊尔的某些俾格米部落中，他们用象牙换取制作长矛和箭头的金属。 They also trade for a few agricultural goods. 他们还做极少量的农产品交易。 Because most of their trade