不是家裡傳下來的財富
這一家把「錢很新」用在社會分類上：錢是自己賺的，所以跟世代相傳的老家族被分開來講。
noun · B2
People who have become rich through their own work or business, rather than by inheriting money from their family. It names the group as a whole, so it takes no plural -s.
新富；靠自己賺起來的有錢人
核心畫面
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…更多收起
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。Two branches
換成現在的算法
一樣是「新的錢」，但這裡的新指的是制度換了，不是誰賺了錢。這是另一條路線，不是從「新富」比喻過來的。
noun · C1
In Britain, the decimal money system that has been used since 1971, in which a pound is worth 100 pence — as opposed to the older system it replaced.
英國一九七一年起的十進位幣制