Unit 19 In the bank
I’d like to open an account with your bank.
A saving account(儲(chǔ)蓄存款帳戶) or a checking account（支票存款帳戶）?
I want to withdraw (提取)200 U.S. dollars with my account.
I want to deposit （存入）2000 pounds into my checking account.
What’s the exchange rate for U.S. dollars today?
I’d like to change this traveler’s check （旅行支票）into U.S. dollars please.
At the present rate of exchange, you’ll get 800 dollars and 90 cents.
How would you like it? 8 100 dollar bills（紙幣）?
Please fill in the card with your name, address and signature.
What’s the annual interest rate （年利率）for this account?
I’m going to visit China next month. Could you tell me where I can change dollars into Chinese currency?
At the bank of China or at the foreign exchange desk in your hotel.
What’s the money system in China?
We use the decimal system.
What is the basic unit?
The basic unit is the Yuan. There are 100 Fen in a Yuan. We call a ten-Fen note a Mao.
We use the decimal system, too. The basic unit is the dollar. There are 100 cents in a dollar. By the way, you’ve been in the U.S. for six months, haven’t you? Have you opened an account yet?
Yes, I have. A saving’s account or a checking account?
A saving’s account. The annual interest rate is 7%. I’m thinking of opening a checking account. Then I can write checks to get money whenever I need it. I can also get money with my credit card out of the bank machines 24 hours a day.
I’d like to open an account.
I’d like to open a saving’s account with your bank.
I’d like to open a checking account with your bank.
What’s the exchange rate for U.S. dollars?
What’s the exchange rate for pounds sterling（英鎊）?
What’s the exchange rate for Jappanese Yan （日元）today?
What’s the exchange rate for the France Franks（法郎）?
How would you like it?
In 20-dollar bills.
In small notes（小面額紙幣）.
50 pounds in fives.
100 dollars in tens please.