"rocky ridge overlooking a river valley," 1839, South African English, from Afrikaans, from Dutch rand "edge, margin," cognate with Old English rand "brink, bank." As a unit of currency, adopted by the Republic of South Africa in 1961 (see Krugerrand). Johnson's dictionary has rand "Border; seam: as the rand of a woman's shoe."
双语例句
1. The rand slumped by 22% against the dollar.
兰特同美元的汇率大幅下跌了22%。
来自柯林斯例句
2. Exploratory Analysis is a system analysis methodology summarized from Rand strategy analysis.