英国拟将发行塑料质地钞票_BEC初级作文

英国拟将发行塑料质地钞票

相比传统钞票，塑料钞票有几点优势。目前使用的纸钞用棉纤维和亚麻纤维制成，比普通的木浆纸更坚韧耐用。但塑料钞票还要更加坚韧，能耐得住机洗。

The notes are more expensive to produce but they last longer – two-and-a-half times longer, the BoE said – than their paper equivalents and are more difficult to counterfeit.

塑料钞票的生产成本更高，但寿命更久——英国央行称是纸钞的2.5倍——并且更难伪造。

Nigeria adopted plastic notes in 2007 for four denominations. But last month the country’s central bank was reported as saying it would switch back to paper, complaining that the polymer notes faded in the “peculiar hot climate . . . making them look tattered when in use over time”.

尼日利亚2007年发行了四种面额的塑料钞票，但据报道，上月该国央行表示将重新启用纸钞，原因是聚合物钞票在“特别炎热的气候下”会褪色，“以致用久了后会变得破旧”。

The BoE said a decision on whether to introduce a plastic £20 note, the most common tender, would be made “in due course”.

英国央行表示，对于是否发行最常用的20英镑面额的塑料钞票，将在“合适时间”做出决定。

The BoE also said it expected to commission polymer-specialist Innovia, owned by private equity fund Arle Capital, to produce the sheets of plastic – so-called substrate – in what will be a blow to De La Rue, sole supplier of notes to the BoE for a decade.