Jan. 19, 2020
1-curious稀奇的,古怪的,不同寻常的
The curious origins of the dollar symbol
2-potent 强有力的,强大的
3-emblematic of 象征性的,标志性的
The dollar sign is among the world's most potent symbols, emblematic of far more than US currency.
4-polyglot 多种语言的
5-ubiquity 普遍存在,到处存在
Yet despite its polyglot ubiquity, the origins of the dollar symbol remain far from clear.
6-mint 铸造(货币或金牌等)
In 1520, the kingdom of Bohemia began minting coins.
7-make its way +介词 到……地方去
It was the Dutch variation, daler, that made its way across the Atlantic in the pockets and on the tougues of early immigrants.
8-spring from 起源于,来自
It is no straightforward answer to the question where the dollar sign sprang from.
9-illusion 影射,暗指,间接提到
It was an illusion of the story of Moses winding a bronze snake around a pole in order to cure people who'd been bitten.
10-coinage 货币制度
11-legal tender 法定货币
Yet the most widely accepted theory in fact involve Spanish coinage, and it goes like this: in the colonies, trade between Spanish American and English American was lively, and peso was legal tender in US until 1857.
12-hover 靠近
13-superscript 上标
It was often shortened the initial "P" with an "S", hovering beside it in superscript.
14-scrawl 潦草的字迹
15-time-pressed 赶时间的
Gradually, thanks to the scrawl of time-pressed merchants, that "P" merged with the "S" and lost its curve, leaving the vertical stroke like a stake down the center of the "S".
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