They wanted the country's economy to be based only on gold.

VOA: special.2010.06.17

So you have three main trade routes that cross the country, and they were used by trading caravans that would carry gold and grain and spices and textiles and other goods between Egypt and the rest of the Fertile Crescent and up into Asia Minor.

你有三条主要道路穿过这个国家，他们被通商的车队所使用,驮着金子，谷物，香料，纺织品和其他货物,在埃及与其他肥沃的伊斯兰教国家间,向上到达小亚细亚。

耶鲁公开课 - 旧约导论课程节选

What it was it began the first country to adopt the gold standard officially was the United Kingdom and that was in 1717.

它是什么---它开始于,第一个官方正式地采取金本位制度的国家,是英国，那时是1717年。

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

In fact,India's gold purchase is reminiscent of another year when the yellow metal dominated headlines in the country.

VOA: standard.2009.11.06

What happened in the 1930s was that one country after another abandoned the gold standard.

在二十世纪三十年代发生的是,一个接连一个的国家放弃了,金本位制度。

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

The Vancouver Games conclude Sunday with a cross-country skiing race and the men's gold medal ice hockey game between Canada and the United States.

VOA: standard.2010.02.28

So the gold standard ended in the 1930s and every country dropped it.

所以，三十年代，金本位制度结束,每个国家都放弃使用它。

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

(NO TRANSCRIPTS) However,in a country where the love of gold dates back centuries, jewelry shop owners say they will wait patiently for sales to pick up.

VOA: standard.2009.09.19

The country's passion for gold is rooted in culture and custom.

VOA: standard.2009.09.19

Economists say India's purchase of 200 tons of gold shows that the country has come a long way in the two decades since it was on the verge of defaulting on its international debt.

VOA: standard.2009.11.06