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Why do we toss coins into fountains. 开始学习
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Throwing coins into fountains is a practice many people have grown up seeing and a superstition many have participated in. 开始学习
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A trip to Rome is not complete without a coin toss backward into the Trevi for the promise of one day returning to the city. 开始学习
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Although its origin is unknown, the custom dates back to Roman-British and Celtic mythology. 开始学习
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The idea stems from people leaving a monetary offering to spirits or supernatural forces that exist in nature. 开始学习
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It has long been believed that spiritual entities reside in or transit through water because it’s a cleansing element necessary for life. 开始学习
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(noun) các thực thể tâm linh
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Many cultures previously used offerings such as food, special stones, carved artifacts, and herbs. 开始学习
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Many cultures previously used offerings such as food, special stones, carved artifacts and herbs. 开始学习
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(noun) an object that is made by a person, especially something of historical or cultural interest
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But the invention of coinage in what is now modern-day Turkey between 500 BCE and 600 BCE, people largely switched to money. 开始学习
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(noun) việc phát minh ra tiền
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Coins often have images, texts and symbols particularly suited for rituals. 开始学习
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(noun) a religious or solemn ceremony consisting of a series of actions performed according to a prescribed order
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It’s not so much about the payment, but how the coin itself has a quasi-magical property people think comes with it. 开始学习
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(combining form) that appears to be something but is not really so, partly; almost gần như used in adjectives and nouns
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It has a connection of sovereignty and represents a token of authority. 开始学习
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(noun) supreme power or authority
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It has a connection of sovereignty and represents a token of authority. 开始学习
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The Gods are not capitalists. 开始学习
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(noun) a weathy person who uses money to invest investor/financier - nhà tư bản
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Nowadays, an anthropologist from the University in Germany who studies coinage throughout history - said documented cases in East Asia show where people have thrown coins into the airplane turbines as good luck charms while borading. 开始学习
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(noun) an expert in anthropology người nghiên cứu nhân loại
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documented cases in East Asia show where people have thrown coins into the airplane turbines as good luck charms while boarding. 开始学习
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People have flocked to other well-known wells and waters throughout history, and the coins may sometimes land with prayers attached. 开始学习
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(verb) to go or gather together somewhere in large numbers
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Even at Sotheby’s Auction House, art buyers sometimes leave coins at the base of statues of Ganesha, the elephant-headed deity of good fortune and overcoming obstacles. l 开始学习
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