当2007年粮食价格飞速上涨时，大多数国家都将它们的公共粮食储存减少到几乎为零的水平，因此缺乏稳定粮食市场的手段。

When grain prices surged in 2007, most countries had reduced their public grain reserves to almost zero, and so lacked the means to stabilize the grain market.

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为稳定市场，欧洲央行承诺购买西班牙和意大利的债券，促使处于困境国家的借贷成本下降。

In a move to calm markets the European Central Bank pledged to buy Spanish and Italian bonds, which also helped to bring the beleaguered countries' borrowing costs down.

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