在加拿大蒙特利尔的一个类似北京新光天地、上海恒隆广场的商场里,商场经理在介绍自己的客户群时说,他们大多花的都是“Old Money”。那是2000年左右,我第一次听到Old Money这个词。“Old Money”指的是继承的钱。英国年代剧《唐顿庄园》里,当男主角问伯爵继承人、唐家大小姐“你们怎么赚钱”时,唐家大小姐回答他:“我们不赚钱,我们继承钱。”之所以这么强调“钱”字,是因为对“老钱”群体来说,谈钱是件庸俗而 In a shopping mall in Shanghai’s Hang Lung Plaza similar to Beijing’s Shin Kong Place in Montreal, Canada, mall managers introduced their client base and said they mostly spent “Old Money.” That was around 2000, the first time I heard the word Old Money. “Old Money ” refers to inherited money. In the British drama “Downton Abbey”, when the actor asks Earl heir, Miss Tang, “How do you make money”, the eldest daughter of Tang replied: “We do not make money, we inherit money.” Therefore, the emphasis on “money” is because it is vulgar to talk about money for the “old money” group