| 词汇 | sterling |
| 释义 | sterling noun[ U ] uk /ˈstɜː.lɪŋ/ us /ˈstɝː.lɪŋ/ British money: 英镑（英国货币） The value of sterling increased against several other currencies yesterday.昨天英镑对其他几种货币的比价有所上升。 If you buy things on the plane, you can either pay for them in pounds sterling (= British pounds) or in US dollars.在飞机上买东西，既可以付英镑，也可以付美元。 British money bit bob crown farthing fiver P, p pence penny pound pound sign pound sterling quid shilling sixpenny smacker sovereign threepenny tuppence tuppenny twopenny sterling adjective uk /ˈstɜː.lɪŋ/ us /ˈstɝː.lɪŋ/ sterlingadjective (METAL)(of precious metal, especially silver) of a particular standard of purity: （贵金属，尤指银）标准纯度的 a sterling silver candlestick纯银烛台 Chemistry: metals & metalworking alloy anti-tarnish bar magnet base metal bimetallic blacksmith brazen brazier bullion ferrous gold leaf lode magnet silver plate swage tarnished tinplated untarnished vermeil wrought iron sterlingadjective (VERY GOOD)approving of a very high standard: 杰出的，优秀的，令人赞赏的 You've done a sterling job.你干得很漂亮。 Everyone has made a sterling effort.每个人都作出了出色的努力。 Extremely good admirable amazing amazingly ask for someone award-winning first-rate five-star gourmet greatness have no parallelphrase par excellence sensational shining soar sock splendid splendidly stellar superiority wonderfully sterling | American Dictionarysterling adjective[ not gradable ] us/ˈstɜr·lɪŋ/ of the highest quality: McCoy had a sterling season last year. sterling | Business Englishsterling noun[ U ] MONEY, ECONOMICSuk /ˈstɜːlɪŋ/us the British system of currency, based on the pound: sterling rises/fallsSterling rose against the dollar to $1.5522. in sterlingOur prices are in sterling. You can pay in pounds sterling or in US dollars. sterling adjective uk /ˈstɜːlɪŋ/us used to describe a metal, especially silver, that has a particular high level of purity(= measure of how pure it is): Offers include a 124-piece set of sterling silver cutlery at €4,495. of a very high standard: The lowest rates and best deals go to customers with sterling credit. There have been sterling performances by some hedge fund managers. Examples of sterlingsterling Sterling's departure from gold marked the collapse of the interwar gold-exchange standard. Finally, sterling's international reserve role must be eliminated before membership. Sterling's appreciation, in the textbook view, was not accompanied by a commensurate fall in domestic prices and costs. Such transfers would then defer sterling's recovery indefinitely and might even make permanent the loss of primacy among the major reserve currencies of the world. Their researches had concluded that the dollar's depreciation did not have the detrimental effects on world prices caused by sterling's flotation. There is little to suggest that this view changed, at least until the sterling crisis of 1947. Sterling was linked to gold and the gold standard ensured price stability. Controls were also imposed for the first time on capital investment in the sterling area and this effectively meant the end of the sterling area. Even then it proved possible to peg sterling at a mere 10 per cent discount against the dollar for the duration of the war. British politicians concentrated on the search for compensation for the foreign exchange loss, which was completely inadequate for achieving its objective + the stabilisation of sterling. He knew that there would be complicated and serious consequences if the link with sterling was broken. I wanted government policy to ensure that sterling maintained confidence in the market without support conscripted under an exchange rate mechanism. The effective sterling rate was now within 3 per cent of where it had been at the beginning of 1977. There had been fears earlier in the year of a franc devaluation and of its likely sideeffects on sterling. The problem of managing sterling was actually greater in the period after devaluation than it had ever been before. See all examples of sterling These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. |
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