It would tend, therefore, not to increase, but to diminish, what they called the unfavourable balance of trade, and consequently the exportation of gold and silver.

因此，它往往不会增加，而是会减少他们所谓的贸易逆差，从而减少黄金和白银的出口。

They were sophistical, too, perhaps, in asserting that the high price of exchange necessarily increased what they called the unfavourable balance of trade, or occasioned the exportation of a greater quantity of gold and silver.

也许他们也很狡猾，断言高昂的交换价格必然会增加他们所谓的贸易逆差，或者导致更多的黄金和白银出口。