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经济学人:电子支付(1)

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(1). Digital payments
电子支付
(2). The dash from cash
现金的猛冲
(3). Rich countries are racing to dematerialise payments. They need to do more to prepare for the side-effects
发达国家竞相使用电子支付。应做好准备应对随之而来的副作用
(4). 1:For the past 3,000 years, when people thought of money they thought of cash.
2:From buying food to settling bar tabs, day-today dealings involved creased paper or clinking bits of metal.
3:Over the past decade, however, digital payments have taken off— tapping your plastic on a terminal or swiping a smartphone has become normal.
4:Now this revolution is about to turn cash into an endangered species in some rich economies.
5:That will make the economy more efficient—but it also poses new problems that could hold the transition hostage.
1:过去的三千年间,提起钱人们就会想起现金。
2:从购买食物到结算酒吧消费,日常交易都涉及到皱巴巴的纸币或叮当作响的金属币。
3:然而,过去十年间,电子支付突然取得成功,在终端机划卡或刷手机已经成为常态。
4:现在,这场革命即将让现金在发达国家成为濒危物种。
5:这将使经济更加有效,但同时也带来了一些新的问题,这些问题可能会阻碍经济转型。
(5). 1:Countries are eliminating cash at varying speeds.
2:But the direction of travel is clear, and in some cases the journey is nearly complete.
3:In Sweden the number of retail cash transactions per person has fallen by 80% in the past ten years.
4:Cash accounts for just 6% of purchases by value in Norway.
5:Britain is probably four or six years behind the Nordic countries.
6:America is perhaps a decade behind.
7:Outside the rich world, cash is still king.
8:But even there its dominance is being eroded.
9:In China digital payments rose from 4% of all payments in 2012 to 34% in 2017.
1:现金在各个国家消失的速度不同。
2:但是,旅行的方向是明确的,在某些情况下,旅程几乎已经完成。
3:在过去的十年里,瑞典人均零售现金交易数量下降了80%。
4:按价值计算,现金仅占挪威购买量的6%。
5:英国可能比北欧国家落后四或六年。
6:美国或许落后了十年。
7:而在发达国家之外,现金仍然是王道。
8:但即便非发达国家,其主导地位也正在受到侵蚀。
9:在中国,电子支付占所有支付的比例从2012年的4%升至2017年的34%。
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