外匯儲備作為一個國家金融實力的標志，是充實國庫、穩定本國匯率的物質基礎。但是，外匯儲備增長過快、規模過高也會給經濟帶來很多不利影響。針對目前外匯儲備充實國庫的現狀，央行提出了三項解決措施：不再“寬進嚴出”、變“藏匯于國”為“藏匯于民”、鼓勵企業“走出去”。

請看《中國日報》的相關報道：China has noticed the negative impacts brought by its huge foreign exchange reserves, at more than US$870 billion, and is taking steps to relieve the pressure.

The State Administration of Foreign Exchange has started to free up the country's foreign exchange regime with a shift from stockpiling foreign exchange reserves in State coffers to letting businesses and individuals hold more foreign currency.

報道中的to stockpile foreign exchange reserve in State coffers實質上是“藏匯于國”的相應英文表達，“國”在這里指state coffers（國庫）。Coffer原意指safe（保險箱），我們日常生活中所言的“私房錢”或“小金庫”就可以說成a private coffer。

當coffer涉及到巨大的財源，表示金庫或國庫時，人們常用它的復數形式，如The government's coffers are almost empty.（ 政府的金庫幾乎空了。）

順便提一下，“藏匯于國”的“藏”實質上是“儲藏”，可用stockpile來表示；“匯”不言而喻就是“外匯”了，而“外匯儲備”則可用foreign exchange reserve來表達。


(中國日報網站編譯）