答案在 The Economist April 9th 2022 Finance & economics 中 “ Currencies--- Not so sterling ” 这篇文章倒数第二段可以找到。
The Economist April 9th 2022 Finance & economics
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punt
punt
n. （用篙撑的）方头平底船；
踢悬空球，踢远球
爱尔兰镑（爱尔兰使用欧元前所采用的货币单位）
v. （在橄榄球或美式橄榄球中）踢（悬空球），（足球中）将（球）踢得很远
省去，不做
乘平底船
take a punt on
take a punt on
承担风险购买（或支持）……（期待因此赚更多的钱），投资
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It might be a good idea to take a punt on a few technology stocks.
花点钱投资科技股也许是个好主意。
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In fact it is a means to less grand aims: speculation and cross-border investment. People trade sterling to take a punt on its value, or because they are buying or selling British assets. In this it has more in common with another rich-world currency. Like sterling, the Australian dollar is issued by an open, developed economy that relies heavily on trade. Punters use both to bet on trends that are bigger than their issuers’ economic footprint: sterling is a proxy for risk appetite; the Aussie dollar for commodity prices. And they loom larger in FX (foreign-exchange) markets than either their economies’ heft or trade volumes warrant. Australia makes up less than 2% of world GDP, yet its dollar is present in 6.8% of FX trades.
事实上，这是一种通过投机和跨境投资来实现不那么宏伟目标的方式。人们交易英镑是为了对其价值进行投资，或者是因为他们正在买卖英国资产。在这一点上，英镑与富裕世界的另一种货币有更多的共同之处。与英镑一样，澳元也是由一个开放、发达的经济体发行，该经济体在很大程度上依赖于贸易。投注者用这两种货币来押注比其发行人经济足迹更大的趋势：英镑是风险偏好的代表；澳元是商品价格的代表。英镑和澳元两者在外汇市场上的影响力比其经济规模或贸易量许可都要大。澳大利亚占世界GDP不到2%，而其澳元却占外汇交易的6.8%。
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