The recent surge in sugar prices comes after a bad harvest, that of corn after official warnings of a lower-than-expected crop.

最近，蔗糖由于收成不好价格也大幅上涨，官方宣布玉米的预期收成也会降低后，玉米的价格也大幅上涨了。

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After an initial deployment of 5,000 troops the number was ramped up to 100,000 within three days. The official media, often reticent about reporting bad news, rapidly updated casualty Numbers.

在首次派遣5000名士兵赶赴灾区之后，在接下来的三天内士兵的总数已经达到100000 .通常报喜不报忧的官方媒体，非常迅速地更新伤亡人数。

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“At times I feel like a therapist,” says one American official. “I keep having to tell Europeans that things are not so bad.”

一位美国官员说“我常常觉得自己像个治疗家，我一直安慰欧洲人情况还没那么遭。”

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But the upheavals of this stage of globalization--nearly always associated, by the way, with bad official policies somewhere, if not where the suffering is--has created a new constituency for autarky.

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Official bad debts recognised so far for property and infrastructure credit are implausibly low.

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Asked if he felt bad, the official said, "I feel that every time, " but that Guan didn't deserve a break because of his age.

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