But prices send important signals, making price controls a blunt instrument.
但是价格传达了一个重要的新号,使得价格管制成为了一种精确的工具。
Whereas her husband is magically skilled at not giving offence, Mrs Obama can be a blunt instrument.
她的丈夫似乎具有魔法,从不冒犯他人,他精于此道,而奥巴马夫人或许只是一位直言不讳的傀儡而已。
Functional imaging is a blunt instrument, and the meaning of fluctuations in brain activity is often difficult to interpret.
功能性造影是一种不那么精确的手段,而且脑部活动的波动常常是难以解释的。
The costs of congestion might justify the overall level of fuel duty, although it is a blunt instrument for dealing with the problem, they say.
尽管这不是处理问题的最佳手段,但交通堵塞的成本可能会调节燃油税的整体水平。
And economic sanctions are themselves a blunt instrument that sometimes harm the people more than the rulers. Stopping oil supplies may have just that effect.
有时候经济制裁工具本身带给人民的伤害远大于对制裁者的效果,而中断原油供应恰巧可以达到上述效果。
Many central banks that are concerned by emerging bubbles have only a very blunt instrument, short-term interest rates, to try to restrain this exuberance.
许多央行正在为经济出现泡沫而忐忑不安。 但为应对这一经济过热现象,它们手中只有一种呆笨的应对措施,即调整银行短期利率。
But though quarantines were frequently effective in protecting the public from the spread of illness, they can be a blunt instrument, and have often been abused or misapplied.
虽然隔离在防止疾病在公众中传播通常很有效,但这种方法往往是一种不近人情的手段,而且通常会被滥用或误用。
Professor Marianne Elvander, the institute's head of disease control and epidemiology, told the BBC News website that they appeared to have been hit by some kind of blunt instrument.
疾病控制和流行病学研究所负责人MarianneElvander教授告诉BBC新闻网说,那些鸟看上去像被某种钝器所伤。
An entire toolbox is available to express information to users, but designers and programmers have stuck to using the same blunt instrument-the dialog-to communicate information.
这就好像有一个完整的工具箱可用于向用户传递信息,而程序员仍然坚持像以前那样用粗糙的工具——对话框——来交流。
The hunters have their sharp hooks and blunt clubs, often combined into a single sinister-looking instrument of Norwegian design known as a hakapik.
猎人经常将其锐利的猎钩和粗硬的棍棒组合成一个挪威人设计并称其为hakapik的看似可怕的工具。
Short-term rates are too blunt an instrument to deal with the many threats that a financial system may face.
在处理很多金融系统可能面对的威胁中,短期利率政策这个工具显得愚钝。
Next there are four seated female musicians, dating from the late fourth century, each holding her instrument and wearing identical blunt bobs.
接下来是4世纪末期的4个女乐师的坐像,每人手里都拿着乐器,留着一色的平头短发。
Next there are four seated female musicians, dating from the late fourth century, each holding her instrument and wearing identical blunt bobs.
接下来是4世纪末期的4个女乐师的坐像,每人手里都拿着乐器,留着一色的平头短发。
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