What is your address there? She fumbled her purse which contained the address slip. He reached down in his hip pocket and took out a fat purse. It was filled with slips of paper, some mileage books, a roll of greenbacks .

“你的地址是哪里?”她摸索着装有地址的钱包。他伸手到后面的裤袋里掏出一个厚厚的皮夹，里面装着些单据，旅行里程记录本和一卷钞票。

perhaps as a result of America spending less on imports, countries would hoard greenbacks to defend their pegs, and global commerce ground to a halt.

（可能是由于美国减少了进口支出），各国会囤积美元以保护其挂钩汇率，全球贸易将陷入停滞。

||1:You might think that America’s clout comes from its 11 aircraft-carriers, 6,500 nuclear warheads or its anchor role in the IMF.||2:But it is also the central node in the network that underpins globalisation.||3:This mesh of firms, ideas and standards reflects and magnifies American prowess.||4:Though it includes goods traded through supply chains, it is mainly intangible.||5:America controls or hosts over 50% of the world’s cross-border bandwidth, venture capital, phone-operating systems, top universities and fund-management assets.||6:Some 88% of currency trades use greenbacks .||7:Across the planet it is normal to use a Visa card, invoice exports in dollars, sleep beside a device with a Qualcomm chip, watch Netflix and work for a firm that BlackRock invests in.

||1:你可能认为美国的影响力来自其11艘航空母舰、6500枚核弹头或其在国际货币基金组织中的核心角色。||2:但美国也是支撑全球化网络的中心节点。||3:这种由公司、理念和标准组成的网络反映并放大了美国的实力。||4:虽然它包括通过供应链交易的商品，但主要是无形的。||5:美国控制或拥有全球超过50%的跨境带宽、风险资本、电话操作系统、顶尖大学和基金管理资产。||6:大约88%的外汇交易使用美元。||7:在全球范围内，使用Visa卡、用美元开具出口发票、睡在装有高通芯片的设备旁、看Netflix，以及为贝莱德投资的公司工作，这些都稀松平常。

||1: Currency fluctuations can also skew remittance patterns. ||2: American greenbacks and euros are no longer sought after in those African countries where currencies have appreciated sharply in real terms thanks to demand for the commodities they export. ||3: “When you send dollars back to a family in Angola, they don’t feel as rich as before,” says Marcelo Giugale of the World Bank. ||4: Working in Europe for five years no longer buys a house back home.

||1:现期的货币波动可能影响汇款模式。||2:美元和欧元再不是非洲国家追逐的对象了。这些地区的货币急剧升值这归因于对他们出口商品需求的增加。||3: “当你送回美元到阿格拉家庭中的时候，他们不会像以前那样感到富有。”来自世界银行的Marcelo Giugale 说。 ||4:在欧洲工作5年再也不能在家乡购买一套房子了。

Sometimes a person may be upset because he does not have something as nice as a friend has, like a fast new car. That person may say he is green with envy.|| Some people are green with envy because a friend has more dollars or greenbacks . Dollars are called greenbacks because that is the color of the back side of the paper money.||

||有时一个人可能会感觉心烦意乱，因为他的某些东西不如朋友的，例如一辆新跑车。这个人可能会说他非常羡慕嫉妒恨(green with envy)。还有些人会非常嫉妒朋友比他更有钱。美元通常被称greenback，因为美钞背面是绿色的。||

“The world economy is, slowly but surely, moving from greenbacks to redbacks. ”

“世界经济正从‘绿币’向‘红币’转移，速度缓慢，但趋势明确无疑。”汇丰是正在向企业客户推介人民币服务的银行之一。

Paralleling international political and economic power shifts, Greenbacks become Red-backs.

并行的国际政治和经济又相互交错，美钞将成为纸。

Far from fleeing greenbacks as the panic spread in mid-August, investors initially flocked to them.

当金融恐慌在8月中扩散开来时，投资人不但没有逃离美元，最初反而涌向美元。

A weaker dollar boosts profits of U. S. multinational companies when their foreign revenues are converted into greenbacks .

当美国跨国公司将国外营收兑换成美元时，美元疲弱将提升其获利。

If an overstretched US one day devalues those greenbacks then it can count on the same number of barrels at a lower real cost.

即使负债过高的美国有朝一日让美元贬值，中国还可以指望以较低的实际成本获得同等数量的原油。

The more China’s leaders perceive their pile of greenbacks to be a wasting asset the more it makes sense to pledge or spend them today.

中国领导人越是意识到自己累积的美元储备是一种消耗性资产，眼下承诺或支出美元就越有意义。