Since both countries had tested nuclear weapons only three years earlier, the confrontation, which dragged on for months, was, to put it mildly, an alarming one.

自从两个国家仅仅是在三年前才开始进行的核试验以来，二者之间拖延了数月的对抗——说得温和一点——就是一个令人担忧的问题。

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On the face of it, the government measure of consumer prices, the CPI, is just mildly alarming with the government estimating prices to be rising at a 3.1 percent annual rate.

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