广播电视英语短句 第 233 课：依赖动物-5

At that time, some states permitted banks to make their own money. 在那个时候，一些州政府允许银行生产他们自己的钱币。

One bank in the state of Michigan offered paper money with a picture of a wildcat on it. 在密歇根银州，有一个银行，就生产带有豹猫图案的纸币。

Some banks, however, did not have enough gold to support all the paper money they offered. 然而，一些银行，没有足够的金子去支撑他们所提供的纸币。

So the money had little or no value. It was called a wildcat bill or a wildcat bank note . 因此，这些纸币很少或者根本没有价值，它们被称作“野猫钞票” 或者“野猫纸币”。

The banks who offered this money were called wildcat banks. 供应这些纸币的银行被称作“非法银行”。