Investors are taking out derivatives to hedge against volatility in the pound and equities.

投资者纷纷拿出金融衍生工具来规避英镑和资产波动带来的风险。

The sharp fall in the pound since then has boosted the sterling value of foreign profits made overseas.

自那时起，英镑的大幅贬值提升了海外利润的英镑价值。

The drop in the pound has made imported vegetable oil costlier, which should help growers like Mr Kaakour.

英镑贬值使得进口植物油更加昂贵，这将有助于像Kaakour先生这样的种植者。

Does this show that international investors are losing confidence in the pound sterling and the UK economy as a whole?

这是否表明国际投资者正在对英镑和整个英国经济失去信心呢？

I'm guessing the dog is in the pound?

你们家的狗是不是也被抓进笼子里了？

They look for a cat in the pound by going from cage to cage.

他们从一个笼子到另一个笼子来寻找圈子里的猫。

But the land tax, at four shillings in the pound, falls short of two millions a-year.

但是，每英镑 4 先令的土地税每年不足 200 万。

From this time to the ninth year of William III., this duty continued at one shilling in the pound.

从这个时候到威廉三世第九年，这一关税一直持续到每磅一先令。

In September, the IMF's criticism of Liz Truss's proposed tax cuts provided ammunition to her political opponents and contributed to a slump in the pound's value.

今年9月，国际货币基金组织对利兹·特拉斯减税提议的批评为她的政治对手提供了弹药，并导致英镑暴跌。

In the fourteenth of Richard II., this duty was raised to one shilling in the pound; but, three years afterwards, it was again reduced to sixpence.

在理查二世十四世，这一关税提高到每镑一先令； 但是，三年后，它又降到了六便士。

Serjeants, attorneys, and proctors at law, who, in the first poll-tax, were assessed at three shillings in the pound of their supposed income, were afterwards assessed as gentlemen.

在第一次征收人头税时， 军士、律师和监考官按他们假定的收入每磅征收三先令， 后来被评定为绅士。

We've already had one investment bank, Deutsche Bank, suggesting that the Bank of England may need to do an emergency rate hike in order to arrest the slide in the pound.

已经有一家投资银行，也就是德意志银行，建议英格兰银行紧急加息，以阻止英镑下跌。

Well, the government say in the future 85 pence in the pound will go to the schools. I want to make sure that every pound spent on schools is a pound spent in schools.

嗯，当今政府说未来每英镑将有85便士是给学校的。我们想确保花在教育上的每一英镑都花在学校的事务上。

It would, indeed, be a pretended payment only, and the creditors of the public would really be defrauded of ten shillings in the pound of what was due to them.

确实，这只是一种假装的付款，公众的债权人真的会被骗去应得的每英镑 10 先令。

Her only hope, a slim one, is that some new declaration from Brussels - or, perhaps, a scary drop in the pound or the financial markets - will persuade her rebel lawmakers to fall into line.

她唯一的希望是，来自布鲁塞尔的一些新声明——或者，或许是英镑或金融市场的可怕下跌——将说服她那些造反的议员们站到一起。

In the forty-seventh year of Edward III., a duty of sixpence in the pound was imposed upon all goods exported and imported, except wools, wool-felts, leather, and wines which were subject to particular duties.

爱德华三世在位四十七年，除羊毛、羊毛毡、皮革和酒类征收特殊关税外， 所有进出口商品均征收每英镑六便士的关税。

When the tax upon land was at four shillings in the pound, or at one-fifth of the supposed rent, it was intended that stock should be taxed at one-fifth of the supposed interest.

当土地税为每磅四先令，或假定地租的五分之一时，意在按假定利息的五分之一对股票征税。

The tythe, where there is no modus, and where it is levied in kind, diminishes more what would otherwise be the rent of the landlord, than a land tax which really amounted to five shillings in the pound.

什一税没有征税方式，而是以实物形式征收，它减少了地主的地租，而不是实际相当于每磅五先令的土地税。

It amounted to more than ninety millions sterling, including not only the new debt which was contracted, but the two shillings in the pound additional land tax, and the sums which were every year borrowed from the sinking fund.

总计超过九千万英镑，其中不仅包括新签的债务，还包括每英镑附加的两先令土地税，以及每年从偿债基金中借来的款项。