Officials say the shortage will continue until the government lifts price control.

官方称在政府取消物价之前，短缺状况将不会缓解。

He promised to control prices and cut interest rates.

他承诺要物价并降低利率。

Roosevelt created a special office with the power to control prices.

罗斯福创建了一个有权物价的特别办公室。

Price controls, the expropriation of farms and anti-business policies have created food shortages.

物价，征用农田，反对商业等政策已造成食物短缺。

Many Americans agreed with the idea of price controls. But every business wanted somebody else's prices controlled, not their own.

许多美国人同意物价的想法。但每家企业都希望得到的是别家的售价，而不是自己的。

With inflation surging to its highest rate in decades, Federal Reserve officials are weighing whether to step up efforts to rein in prices.

随着通胀率飙升至几十年来的最高水平，美联储官员正在权衡是否要加力物价。

The great increase in public spending raised the threat of high inflation. Roosevelt created a special office with the power to control prices.

公共开支的提高增加了高通胀的威胁，罗斯福设立了一个有权物价的特别办公室。

Some saw this as a sign that the central bank will raise interest rates before Christmas, though Mr Bailey suggested he is more concerned about taming prices over the medium term.

一些人认为这是央行将在圣诞节前提高利率的信号，尽管贝利表示，他更关心在中期物价。

And other Fed officials have been sounding similar alarms, suggesting that interest rates may have to go up higher and stay up longer in order to get prices under control.

其他美联储官员也发出了类似的警告，暗示为住物价，可能不得不进一步上调利率，且要维持更长时间。

Meanwhile, the aggressive monetary tightening of the past year is only now filtering through to the economy, complicating assessments of whether the Fed has in fact done enough to rein in prices.

与此同时，过去一年刀阔斧的货币紧缩直到现在才开始渗透到经济中，这导致针对美联储是否真的采取了足够的措施物价的评估变得复杂。

Though the lengthy discussion of alternative forms of stimulus may prove relevant again later in the decade, it will seem academic while central banks are desperately raising interest rates to get price growth under control.

尽管在近十年后，有关其它刺激措施形式的冗长讨论可能会再次证明具有现实意义，但在各国央行拼命加息以物价增长的情况下，这似乎是纸上谈兵。

The central bank is trying to tame inflation by cooling the economy, but without putting it in a deep freeze: Officials do not want unemployment to soar by more than is necessary to wrestle price increases under control.

央行试图通过给经济降温来抑通胀，但也不会让经济陷入深冻结：官员们不希望失业率飙升的超过物价上涨所需的水平。