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The most fertile soil for such financial seeds proved to be the Italian city states |
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Fibonacci's hometown of Pisa was one |
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But it was above all Venice, more exposed than any of the others to oriental influences |
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that became the great money-lending laboratory |
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and the home of literature's most notorious moneylender |
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Shylock, in William Shakespeare's The Merchant of Venice. |
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(此段对话出自《威尼斯商人》第一幕第三场) |
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May you stead me? Will you pleasure me? Shall I know your answer? |
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Crucially, Shylock's only prepared to lend the money if Bassanio's friend, the merchant Antonio, is providing the security |
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3,000 ducats for three months and Antonio bound |
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Your answer to that |
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Antonio is a good man |
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By good, Shylock doesn't mean virtuous, he means good for the money he's about to lend Bassanio |
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In other words, creditworthy |
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