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　　I. History of Money

　　一、货币 历史

　　Money's got a very colourful history, because a number of things have been used in the place of what we use as money. Feathers, shells, cloth ……salt in Roman times when the Roman soldiers were paid in salt and that's how we get the word salary, from the Latin sal for salt.　　历史上的货币五花八门。古时候，羽毛、贝壳、布料甚至盐都曾是交换工具。古罗马士兵得到的军饷就是盐。盐这个词也是英文“工资”这个词的起源。拉丁文Sal的意思是盐，英文中工资Salary就是从它演变而来的。

　　And a number of tribes used cattle, which were useful because they were transportable. But they were quite bulky and you weren't always sure of the size of cattle you were going to get, so there was a problem there of quality.　　还有一些部落以牲畜作为交换媒介。这很有用，因为牲畜可以运来运去。但是它们体积庞大，而且无法确切知道你将要得到的牲畜的大小，因此存在质量方面的问题。

　　In the ninth century in China we had paper money for the first time. It wasn't quite the paper money that we know, it was more like a piece of paper saying a promise to pay.　　九世纪时在中国首次出现了纸币。这种纸币与我们现在使用的不同，更象是一种欠条。