A high dollar, they said, drove down prices for agricultural products. A silver standard would lower the value of the dollar.

他们说，美元价值高压低了农产品价格，银本位制会降低美元的价值。

Every political idea and personal prejudice he ever dallied with held him to the silver standard, and made a barrier between him and gold.

他曾经玩弄过的每一个政治思想和个人偏见都使他坚持银本位，并在他和金子之间设置了障碍。

He had, in a half-hearted way, struggled all his life against State Street, banks, capitalism altogether, as he knew it in old England or new England, and he was fated to make his last resistance behind the silver standard.

正如他在旧英格兰或新英格兰所知道的那样，他一生都以半心半意的方式与道富银行、银行、资本主义作斗争，他注定要在银本位制下进行最后的抵抗。