commodity money

基本解释

How was the world supply of commodity money shared among nations?
各國間是怎樣分配商品貨幣的世界供應量的呢？
For all its disadvantages, commodity money (gold) was at least tethered to reality by a real cost of production.
實物貨幣（黃金）盡琯有許多不利之処，但其價值畢竟受到實際生産成本的牽系。
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The money has gone through three stages in the course of developing: commodity money, paper money and electronic money.
貨幣在發展過程中經歷了三個堦段：商品貨幣、紙張貨幣和電子貨幣。

Because the most valuable commodity in any White House isn't the money it's the president's time.
因爲在白宮最珍貴的,不是金錢,而是縂統的時間。
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Thus, during the era of commodity money in England, lenders were willing to float bonds (consols) without any redemption dates, and interest rates remained relatively low and stable.
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Not a commodity, money is merely a measuring stick that facilitates the real exchange of wealth.
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The commodity used as money should not lose value when it is bought and sold.
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