A persistent balance-of-payments deficit can lead to a depletion of a country's reserves of foreign currency, forcing it to devalue its currency.

持续的国际收支逆差会耗尽一国的外汇储备，迫使其货币贬值。

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The main indicator of a country's intervention in currency markets is its level of foreign reserves.

一国对货币市场干预的最重要的指标是其外汇储备水平。

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Fearful of inflation, which has risen to 7.7%, in part because of the weaker currency, the bank has recently reversed tack and sold some of its foreign-currency reserves to prop up the lira.

如对通货膨胀的担忧，通货膨胀的比率已上涨到7.7%，部分是因为货币力量的减弱，为此银行最近已经取消引资，并且售出一些外汇储备，用以支撑里拉的增值。

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This is, in other words, the opposite of trying to prop up a currency, which strains the foreign currency reserves of the central bank.

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