今天又學(xué)到了好多新知識(shí)，老師好厲害，感謝！

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術(shù)語：term; terminology? 詞匯：vocabulary

4 terminologies:

*Bitcoin is digital currency that you can buy, sell and exchange directly, without an intermediatory like a bank.

*Cryptocurrency is the general name for digital currency.

*Blockchain is a secure system behind bitcoin which records information in a way that make it difficult or impossible to change, hack or cheat the system.

*NFT is short for non-fungible token,and it is digital token which represents real-world objects like art, music, in-game items and videos.

non-fungible 不可替代的

non-fungible token 非同質(zhì)化代幣

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bitcoin crashed 30% to 20,000.

The coin has lost 70% of its value last year, when it traded 65,000.

all-time high 歷史最高點(diǎn)

since all-time high in November=since its November peak

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the most valuable cryptocurrency has fallen/slipped 15% since Monday, and by nearly a third since Friday. (33%)

by nearly a third 相差近三分之一

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the world’s major central bank

hike interest rates

hike: a large increase in price

bring inflation under control

dump their riskier investments

volatile crypto assets

As the world’s major central bank hike interest rates to bring inflation under control, traders have dumped their riskier investments, which include volatile crypto assets.

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Sham 騙局

Great fool theory: referencing the notion that investors can make money on worthless or overvalues assets as long as people are willing to bid them higher.

Bid price=offer a price

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Be long or short on sth, 批評(píng)或表揚(yáng)（不常見，金融術(shù)語）

Gates added that,

He mocked sth, joking that expensive digital images of monkeys can improve the world immensely.