Shortages boost prices, diverting salt set for industrial use to de-icing and encouraging imports from warmer climes.
短缺导致价格飙升，短缺也导致把工业用盐拿来做道路融冰所用，同时导致从天气温暖地区进口更多食盐。
There is an incentive to collude with other suppliers to boost prices, just as two prisoners have good reason to keep mum about their crime.
与其他供应商一起哄抬价格的动机，就像2个囚徒在他们的罪行方面都闭口不言。
The dollar's gains, combined with reports that Japan is about to buy shares in the market to boost prices sent the Nikkei share average up 2.65% in late trading.
美元的涨势，再加上报告称日本准备在市场上购入股票使得日经平均指数在最近上涨了2.65%。
Theoretically, an increase in production eventually will boost prices. But, as Thursday's bleak retail sales figures reinforce, this recession has hobbled demand.
理论上，生产的增长最终会带动价格上涨。但正如周四黯淡的零售数据所体现的那样，本轮衰退阻碍了需求。
Exelon's purchase comes on the heels of other big acquisitions in the power industry, as companies look to lock in good deals before an expected recovery starts to boost prices.
Exelon公司的收购来对电力行业的其他大型收购脚步，公司希望在锁定前开始复苏的预期价格提高好交易。
This trend, combined with investor assumptions that oil prices will remain high, have helped boost prices further, which has in turn fed more investor speculation in the market.
这种趋势，加上投资者推断石油价格会持续走高，都促使价格进一步攀升，随之滋生了市场中投资者更多的投机行为。
Likewise, automation should eventually boost productivity, stimulate demand by driving down prices, and free workers from hard, boring work.
同样，自动化最终应该提高生产力，通过降低价格来刺激需求，并把工人从繁重、乏味的工作中解脱出来。
Unfortunately, the result has not been competition to beat down prices and boost speeds, but cosy duopolies that keep bandwidth scarce and carve the market up between incumbents.
不幸的是，这样的竞争结果不是降低价格，提升网速，而是成了狼狈为奸的两强垄断，这使得带宽非常有限，现有市场分崩离析。
And it outlined moves to boost the supply of diesel, used for farm vehicles, and control energy prices.
而且还出台了相关用于提升农机的柴油供应以及控制能源价格的计划。
Farmers' groups backed the changes, saying Brazil, as one of the biggest exporters of soy, beef and sugar, needed to boost food production in times of high commodity prices.
农民团体支持这项变动，他们认为，作为世界上最大的大豆、牛肉和糖的出口国家之一，巴西需要在商品价格高涨时，及时促进食品生产。
But persistently falling prices would constrain central Banks' ability to boost growth, because they would be unable to push interest rates below inflation-ie, make them negative in real terms.
但是持续下跌的价格将限制各国央行刺激增长的能力，因为他们将不能够将利率推低到通胀率以下——也就是说，将实际利率保持在零以下。
And if more competitive farming pushed up land prices, it would boost the collateral held by overextended Banks.
农业具有竞争力后会推高土地价格，从而增加对过度扩张的银行抵押品的数量。
The rise in oil costs also coincides with higher agricultural commodity prices, although those increases boost economies in countries such as Thailand by lifting farm incomes and wage rates.
油价攀高的同时，农产品价格也在上涨。不过粮食价格上涨对泰国等国家的经济起到了推动作用，提高了农户的收入和薪资水平。
But a moderate fall in prices might not hurt household consumption — it could even give it a boost.
但房价适度下跌可能非但不会降低家庭消费，甚至可能会提振消费。
Likewise, an increase in income seems to lead to a bigger rise in wine demand in these economies than in the rich world, and so gives a bigger boost to prices.
类似地，收入增加对葡萄酒需求量的提振作用在新兴经济体要比发达世界强，因而对价格的刺激作用也更大。
So are lower prices for food and fuel, which have provided a boost to personal disposable income.
食品和燃料价格的下跌，也刺激了个人可支配收入的增加。
Harris and others figure a Japanese economic bounce and lower energy prices will boost activity by then, and it is certainly possible that will happen.
哈里斯和其他人预计日本经济的反弹和能源价格的下跌将有利于刺激第四季度的经济活力，这种预测很有可能成为现实。
The initiative is intended to help small farmers boost domestic agricultural production in the food importing countries that are most vulnerable to high prices.
该计划旨在帮助最容易遭受高价格影响的粮食进口国的小农推动国内农业生产。
This attempt to boost asset prices by money creation was ultimately doomed.
这次以货币创造抬高资产价格的尝试最后以失败告终。
As Ford recently pointed out, if the industry were to move towards a common standard for battery packs, this would help boost production volumes and so bring prices down even more.
正如福特近日指出的，如果整个行业如果能制定出电池的通用标准，这将有助于提高产量并更大幅度降低价格。
Base metals demand and high prices mean mining companies are pulling out the stops to find and develop projects to boost supply.
贱金属需求和价格高企，意味着矿业企业正全力以赴地寻找和开发提高供应量的项目。
However, analysts are concerned that while more disposable income will boost demand, it is also likely to put further upward pressure on prices.
尽管更多可支配收入将刺激消费需求，但也有分析人士担心此举可能会对物价施加进一步上涨的压力。
Central Banks have repeatedly cut or held down interest rates over the past 25 years in an attempt to boost bank profits and prop up asset prices.
为提升银行利润，推高资产价格，过去25年里央行屡次降低和维持低利率。
Gains in contract iron ore prices will boost profits for Brazil's Vale SA, Rio Tinto Group and BHP Billiton Ltd., the three-biggest iron ore exporters.
合约铁矿石价格上涨将使巴西淡水河谷、力拓和必和必拓的盈利大增。
While high prices are denting demand, miners, oil companies and farmers are struggling to boost supply enough to resolve the tightness in the market.
尽管价格高企削弱了需求，但在另一方面，矿商、石油企业和农场主难以增加供应以解决市场的紧张。
If it lasts, easier access to cheaper finance ought to help boost housing demand, particularly since the plunge in house prices has improved many measures of housing affordability.
如果这种情况继续的话，更容易得到廉价的贷款会有助于提升买房需求，尤其是低廉的房价也提升了人们的购房承受程度。
If it lasts, easier access to cheaper finance ought to help boost housing demand, particularly since the plunge in house prices has improved many measures of housing affordability.
如果这种情况继续的话，更容易得到廉价的贷款会有助于提升买房需求，尤其是低廉的房价也提升了人们的购房承受程度。
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