But this and other price shocks were event-driven—drought in the Soviet Union, crop-shrinking heat in the U.S. Corn Belt.
但是这次和往常其他的价格冲击是由苏联的干旱和美国玉米带的作物减产引起的。
For a while, U.S. power was checked by the Soviet Union, but since the end of the Cold War, America has been the sole superpower.
有一段时间，美国的力量曾遭到苏联的制衡，但自从冷战结束之后，美国已经成为单极世界的唯一超级大国。
Another source might be Russia, Ukraine and other former Soviet-block countries, which have plenty of helicopters, but have so far offered few of them.
另一个来源则是俄罗斯、乌克兰以及其它前苏联加盟国家，这些国家都拥有大量直升机，但迄今为止只提供了极少的数量。
All five of these first-generation water-moderated Soviet units are past or near their original retirement ages, but one salient fact sets Armenia's reactor apart from the four in Russia.
所有这五个第一代苏联式的水慢化反应堆，都已超期服役或行将退役。但一个突出的现实问题，将亚美尼亚的核电站与俄罗斯的那四个区别开来。
Russia still has a sizeable indigenous industry, but many of its products hark back to the old Soviet Union.
俄罗斯仍然拥有一个相当大的本土汽车产业，但是它的许多产品都与老苏维埃联盟有关。
During Soviet times a successful bureaucrat could expect to live in a good but modest three-bedroom flat, with modern furniture. He could expect holidays on the Black Sea coast.
在苏联时期，一名成功的官僚往往可以住进一间适度舒适，而且配有现代家具的三房一厅公寓，他还享有到黑海度假的假期。
It is difficult for heroes to remain untarnished, still less Soviet ones, but on the 50th anniversary of the first human travel in space, such a fate is reserved for Yuri Gagarin.
英雄很难永葆昔日光环，更何况是苏联的英雄。然而在人类实现首次太空旅行的50周年纪念日，尤里·加加林却光芒依旧。
Russia’s economy is more flexible than the Soviet one was, but frustration with the unfairness of the system is no less strong.
俄罗斯的经济要比苏联当时的更灵活，但是对不公的挫折感却并不比当时差。
In 1970 he won the Nobel prize for literature, but declined to accept it in person for fear that he would not be allowed to return to the Soviet Union.
1970年他获得了诺贝尔文学奖，但是他个人由于担心不被允许返回苏联而拒绝接受。
The former Soviet Union was a super power but only with an economy of a third world nation.
前苏联是超级大国，但它的经济只有第三世界的水平。
Airliner Tu-104 presented in the museum's exposition is twice the first - it's not only the first Soviet jet passenger plane, but the first specimen as well.
博物馆陈列的这架图- 104占了两个第一- - -它不仅是苏联第一架喷气机客机，而且是第一架样机。
Soviet rule, it is easy to forget, only came to an end 16 years ago, but the Baku of Ali and Nino is still, just, recognisable. Bridget keenan.
苏联的统治(很容易忘记)在16年前才结束，但Ali和Nino的巴库的旧貌仍依稀可辨。
Its sister ship the Kuznetsov survived, but by the time the Soviet Union ceased to exist, the Varyag was a white elephant marooned off a port in the Black Sea.
它的姐妹舰库兹涅佐夫仍在服役，不过当前苏联分崩离析之时，瓦良格号这一白色的庞然大物却漂泊在黑海一港口之外。
Russia is not the Soviet Union, but what is it?
俄罗斯不是苏联，那它是什么呢？
But the assistance that did flow into the Soviet Union could only have occurred during a period of close relations between Washington and Moscow.
然而这部分实际进入苏联的援助也仅可能发生在华盛顿和莫斯科关系密切的那段时期内。
But in one respect, at least, he has put the Soviet past behind him.
但至少从某方面讲，他已将昔日的苏联甩在了身后。
Ice palaces were popular in the Soviet Union, to which Turkmenistan once belonged, but they were built in the freezing cities of the north, far away.
冰雪宫殿在前苏联非常流行(土库曼斯坦曾属于前苏联)，可它们大都建在地冻天寒的遥远的北方城市。
America's arch rival, the Soviet Union, had launched not only the first satellite into orbit, but the first person as well.
美国的主要竞争对手，苏联，不但是成功发射第一颗卫星，别且也是第一个载人航天成功的国家。
But hundreds of other Americans bombarded the Soviet Embassy with friendly pleas that Khrushchev visit their home or their town or their county fair.
但是另外许多的民众向苏联大使馆发出了邀请赫鲁晓夫参观他们的家，他们的城镇和他们的国家。
But the Soviet space programme has much less resonance, in the West at least.
但是前苏联的太空计划就低调的多，至少在西方如此。
But two new books will convince doubters that spending time on the Soviet experience is still worthwhile.
但这两本新书还是能够劝服怀疑者——花时间研究苏联历史是值得的。
Turkey and Norway were the only NATO members to border the Soviet Union. But Turkey's pro-Western stance led it to neglect its neighbourhood, including many countries once in the Ottoman empire.
北约成员国中只有土耳其和挪威与苏联接壤，但土耳其亲西方的立场使其忽视了邻居，其中包括很多曾经属于奥斯曼帝国的国家。
But he concedes that surliness endures, even among waiters and waitresses who grew up in the privatised, post-Soviet years.
但他承认，粗鲁的现象仍然存在，即便是在那些成长在苏联解体后的私营化年代的侍者之间也是如此。
But we were painting under the Soviet influence in a Russian style.
而我们的画风受苏联影响，是俄罗斯风格。
But the big difference is that TFP in the Soviet Union actually fell by an annual average of 1% over 30 years to 1988.
但是（苏联和中国的）不同在于苏联的TFP在1988年前的30年里实际上下降到了年均1%左右。
But the big difference is that TFP in the Soviet Union actually fell by an annual average of 1% over 30 years to 1988.
但是（苏联和中国的）不同在于苏联的TFP在1988年前的30年里实际上下降到了年均1%左右。
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