本期节目讨论黄金为何在2026年创下历史新高。主持人Georgie和Phil从黄金作为货币的历史讲起，解释黄金因供应有限、不依附特定国家而成为避险资产。专家指出黄金无法凭空制造，在战争、关税等危机时期政府银行会增持黄金。尽管价格近期略有回落，但专家认为在虚拟化、不确定的现代世界中，人们对黄金这种实在、传统的资产仍有强烈渴望。节目还教授了asset、safe haven、alchemy等六个词汇。
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| 1. Gold is a safe haven because it's not connected to one particular government or one particular economy or one particular market.
※ because引导原因状语从句，注意not connected to的连读和三个particular的排比节奏。 |
黄金是一个避风港，因为它不与某个特定政府、特定经济体或特定市场挂钩。 |
| 2. It can't be created and fabricated out of thin air through alchemy, and so this, sort of, controls the supply and sustains an underlying value behind the demand for gold.
※ 被动语态can't be created and fabricated，注意out of thin air的连读和sort of的弱读。 |
它无法通过炼金术凭空创造和制造出来，因此这在一定程度上控制了供应，并维持了黄金需求背后的潜在价值。 |
| 3. So much of the world we live in now is ethereal. It's... it's virtual, it's online, it disappears, whereas gold is something solid, something dependable.
※ whereas引导对比从句，注意it's的弱读和disappears的重音。 |
我们现在生活的世界很大程度上是虚幻的。它是虚拟的、在线的、会消失的，而黄金是实实在在的、可靠的东西。 |
| 4. And maybe it's a hankering for traditional values rather than what is super modern and super changeable.
※ rather than连接对比成分，注意a hankering for的连读和super的强调重音。 |
也许这是对传统价值观的渴望，而不是对超级现代、超级多变之物的追求。 |
| 5. Experts believe that gold will always be an attractive investment during uncertain times.
※ that引导宾语从句，注意will always be的弱读和attractive investment的连读。 |
专家认为，在不确定的时期，黄金将始终是一种有吸引力的投资。 |
| Georgie | Hi Phil. | 嗨，Phil。 |
| Phil | Hi Georgie. I've got a question for you. Do you own anything made of gold? | 嗨，Georgie。我有个问题问你。你有金子做的东西吗？ |
| Georgie | Well, at the moment I'm wearing a lot of gold-coloured jewellery, but I'm not sure exactly how much of it is made of gold. | 嗯，我现在戴着很多金色的首饰，但我不确定其中到底有多少是真金的。 |
| Phil | OK. I don't think I own anything made of gold. Beyond jewellery and other personal items, gold is bought and sold by investors and banks. | 好吧。我觉得我没有金子做的东西。除了首饰和其他个人物品，黄金是由投资者和银行买卖的。 |
| Phil | The price of gold has always gone up and down, but in 2026 it reached its highest ever price. | 黄金价格一直有涨有跌，但在2026年达到了历史最高价。 |
| Phil | In this episode of 6 Minute English, we'll be talking about how gold became a valuable investment and asking the question, why do people buy gold? | 在本期《六分钟英语》中，我们将讨论黄金如何成为一种有价值的投资，并探讨一个问题：人们为什么买黄金？ |
| Phil | Let's start with our quiz question, Georgie. Gold is a metal that's extracted or dug up from under the ground in mines. | 我们先从测验问题开始，Georgie。黄金是一种从地下矿井中开采或挖出来的金属。 |
| Phil | But how much gold has been extracted from the earth? Is it: a) over 50,000 tonnes, b) over 100,000 tonnes, or c) over 200,000 tonnes? | 但地球上已经开采了多少黄金？是：a) 超过5万吨，b) 超过10万吨，还是c) 超过20万吨？ |
| Georgie | Phil, I have absolutely no idea, but I'm going to go with c) 200,000 tonnes. | Phil，我完全不知道，但我选c) 20万吨。 |
| Phil | OK. Well, we'll give you the answer at the end of the programme. | 好。我们会在节目最后给你答案。 |
| Georgie | OK Phil. So, we've been using gold for thousands of years, but why and how did it start? | 好的，Phil。我们用黄金已经几千年了，但这是为什么、怎么开始的呢？ |
| Phil | Well, before money was paper or plastic or just numbers in your bank account, a lot of it was actually gold. | 嗯，在钱还是纸、塑料或者只是银行账户里的数字之前，很多钱实际上是黄金。 |
| Phil | And experts have discovered gold in coins that are thought to have been made in the 6th Century BC. | 专家在据信制造于公元前6世纪的硬币中发现了黄金。 |
| Phil | So, gold coins were made and they were used because the metal was much easier to carry and trade than things like cattle or timber. | 所以，金币被制造出来并使用，因为这种金属比牛或木材之类的东西更容易携带和交易。 |
| Georgie | OK. But now our money isn't literally made of gold, so why is gold valuable? | 好。但现在我们的钱实际上不是金子做的，那黄金为什么有价值呢？ |
| Phil | It's a good question, but even though it isn't money, gold is still a financial asset, and an asset is something valuable that could be sold for money. | 这是个好问题，但即使黄金不是钱，它仍然是一种金融资产，而资产就是有 value、可以卖钱的东西。 |
| Phil | And people buy gold in times of crisis because it's thought of as a safe investment. | 人们在危机时期买黄金，因为它被认为是一种安全的投资。 |
| Phil | Let's listen to expert Suki Cooper explaining more to the BBC World Service. | 我们来听听专家Suki Cooper向BBC国际频道做的进一步解释。 |
| Suki Cooper | Gold is a safe haven because it's not connected to one particular government or one particular economy or one particular market, so the fact that it's neutral means it's an asset that's perceived to be a store of value over a longer term. | 黄金是一个避风港，因为它不与某个特定政府、特定经济体或特定市场挂钩，所以它的中立性意味着它被视为一种长期保值资产。 |
| Phil | Suki describes gold as a safe haven, and a safe haven means something or somewhere that's protected from harm or danger, or in financial terms, from a fall in value. | Suki把黄金描述为避风港，避风港是指免受伤害或危险的地方或事物，在金融术语中就是免受贬值。 |
| Georgie | Yes, Suki explains that, unlike dollars or pounds for example, gold is not connected to a particular country. It's neutral. | 是的，Suki解释说，与美元或英镑等不同，黄金不与特定国家挂钩。它是中立的。 |
| Phil | And Georgie, because we get gold from mines, there's more or less a fixed amount. Unlike paper money, you can't just print more, as Catherine Schenk, professor of economic and social history, explains. | 而且Georgie，因为我们从矿井中获取黄金，数量或多或少是固定的。与纸币不同，你不能随便多印，正如经济和社会史教授Catherine Schenk所解释的。 |