These effects are still much smaller than recent food-price spikes, but would they, on balance, help or hurt the poor?

这些影响仍然远远小于近期的粮食价格上涨，但它们究竟对穷人有没有影响，如果有是对穷人有益呢还是有害？

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You might think this scenario would tempt plenty of farmers to flip their acres from cattle pasture to cropland. But it's a tough decision that depends on much more than recent prices.

你或许会认为这样的行情会诱使农民将养牛的牧场改为农田来种庄稼，而实际上这对农民来说是个艰难的决定，转行不能仅仅因为价格，还要考虑很多别的因素。

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More than half of all recent graduates are unemployed or in jobs that do not require a degree, and the amount of student-loan debt carried by households has increased more than five times since 1999.

在最近毕业的所有毕业生中，超过一半的人没有工作，或者从事不需要学位的工作。并且自1999年以来，有学生贷款债务的家庭数额增加了五倍多。

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In that group, twenty-two percent of the wives earned more than their husbands during the most recent year of the study.

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In recent years, there have been more examples of things that are priced too high than things that are priced too low but there are both and the market makes mistakes in both directions.

在最近的几年里，有更多的例子表明,市场价格是偏高了而不是被偏低了,但是其实两种现象都存在,同时市场也在两个方向上都犯了错误。

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More than seven thousand six hundred incidents were reported nationwide in two thousand seven, the most recent year available.

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Scottish Trades Union Congress general secretary Grahame Smith said the statistics represented "better news than recent months".

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But strategists for both parties say that voters are more fickle than recent election results let on.

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In Watson, a CPA with significant experience and expertise was paid a smaller salary than recent college graduates.

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