Pawnbroking – lending money against valuable assets – dates back to biblical times. By some accounts, Queen Isabella of Castile financed Christopher Columbus’s 15th-century discovery of the Americas by pawning her jewels.
典当——以有价值的资产作抵押提供贷款——要回溯到圣经时期。据称,卡斯提拉的伊莎贝拉女王(Queen Isabella of Castile)曾典当了她的珠宝,为克里斯托弗•哥伦布(Christopher Columbus)15世纪发现美洲之旅提供资金。
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