One way to hold this phrase: money with a date on it. English keeps asking how long wealth has been where it is, and new money is the answer nearest to today — it arrived recently, so it has not had time to become part of a family or part of what everyone is used to. Most of the time that date separates people who earned their fortune from families who inherited theirs. One British use puts the same date on the coins themselves.

可以想成一筆「有日期」的錢。英文很在意財富在那裡待了多久,而 new money 就是離今天最近的那一端——它才剛來,還來不及變成家族的一部分,也還來不及變成大家習慣的東西。多數時候,這個日期分開的是「自己賺起來的人」和「繼承家產的人」。而在英國有一個用法,把同樣的日期貼在硬幣本身上。

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