Currency
['kʌr(ə)nsɪ] or ['kɝənsi]
解釋/意思:
(noun.) general acceptance or use; 'the currency of ideas'.
(noun.) the metal or paper medium of exchange that is presently used.
约翰娜編輯--From WordNet
解釋/意思:
(n.) A continued or uninterrupted course or flow like that of a stream; as, the currency of time.
(n.) The state or quality of being current; general acceptance or reception; a passing from person to person, or from hand to hand; circulation; as, a report has had a long or general currency; the currency of bank notes.
(n.) That which is in circulation, or is given and taken as having or representing value; as, the currency of a country; a specie currency; esp., government or bank notes circulating as a substitute for metallic money.
(n.) Fluency; readiness of utterance.
(n.) Current value; general estimation; the rate at which anything is generally valued.
校對:帕蒂
同義詞及近義詞：
n. [1]. Publicity, general reception.[2]. Circulation, transmission from hand to hand.[3]. Money; aggregate of coin, bills and notes; circulating medium.
校對:莫利
同義詞及反義詞：
SYN:Circulation, vogue, publicity, prevalence
ANT:Suppression, repression, recall, stagnation, rejection, disbelief, withdrawal
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例句/造句/用法:
- Closely connected with the vagueness of men's ideas about property was the vagueness of their ideas about currency. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- A thousand guilders in the bank of Amsterdam, for example, are of more value than a thousand guilders of Amsterdam currency. 亞當·斯密. 國富論.
- Such a state, therefore, by reforming its coin, will not always be able to reform its currency. 亞當·斯密. 國富論.
- A tax of this kind, imposed during the currency of a lease, may, no doubt, distress or ruin the farmer. 亞當·斯密. 國富論.
- It was a well-reasoned discussion on the relati on of the issue of paper currency to rate of interest, land values, manuf actures, population, and wages. 李貝. 西洋科學史.
- Both credit and currency begin to fluctuate wildly with the evaporation of public confidence. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- The price of passage is fixed at $1,250, currency, for each adult passenger. 馬克·吐溫. 傻子出國記.
- That mysterious paper currency which circulates in London when the wind blows, gyrated here and there and everywhere. 查理斯·狄更斯. 我們共同的朋友.
- There is some justice in this opinion, as there always is in such as attain general currency. 沃爾特·司各特. 艾凡赫.
- But under the most stable conditions there will always be fluctuations in currency value. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- The currency of a great state, such as France or England, generally consists almost entirely of its own coin. 亞當·斯密. 國富論.
- It is clear that the riddle of currency exercised Owen. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- Before the late recoinage, when the gold currency of England was two per cent. 亞當·斯密. 國富論.
- They can center it upon the tariff or the trusts or even the currency. 沃爾特·李普曼. 政治序論.
- Tradition has centered upon the tariff, the trusts, the currency, and electoral machinery as the items of consideration. 沃爾特·李普曼. 政治序論.
- Those metals are said to have become more abundant in America, since the suppression of some of their paper currencies. 亞當·斯密. 國富論.
- In the currencies of North America, paper was commonly issued for so small a sum as a shilling, and filled almost the whole of that circulation. 亞當·斯密. 國富論.
- They are said, likewise, to have been more abundant before the institution of those currencies. 亞當·斯密. 國富論.
- In some paper currencies of Yorkshire, it was issued even for so small a sum as a sixpence. 亞當·斯密. 國富論.
- In the paper currencies of Yorkshire, the payment of so small a sum as 6d. 亞當·斯密. 國富論.
整理:温弗雷德