The increase appeared to be driven by a 1.8 percent spike in wholesale prices, largely due to higher energy prices.

零售额增长看来受到批发价格上升1.8%的驱动，而批发价格上升主要因为能源价格上涨。

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He told me he never entered a spike unless driven there by hunger, sleeping under hedges and behind ricks in preference.

他告诉我要不是饿得受不了，他是决计不会踏入收容站半步的——他宁肯在树篱下过夜或者去睡草垛。

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The spike in yields on Treasurys on Friday was driven by the view that the Federal Reserve would need to raise interest rates sooner than expected, possibly slowing the economy too fast, too soon.

上周五国债收益率蹿升即是受这样一种看法推动：美国联邦储备委员会(Fed，简称：美联储)需要比预期更快地上调利率，从而可能令经济增速过快、过早地减缓。

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The increase appeared to be driven by a 1.8 percent spike in wholesale prices, largely due to higher energy prices.

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If they aren't dead after that, they get a big spike slowly driven through their chests ... unless, of course, a spike is driven through their forehead.

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Soon, she's back in cahoots with Victor as the two of them devise a couple of doublecrosses that will leave them with the money, and (though they don't foresee it) the businessman with a huge spike driven through his eye.

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Short covering may have driven some of the spike as traders bought shares in front of the earnings.

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