Pricking them is even harder without wrecking the economy.

在不伤害经济的情况下戳破泡沫则更难。

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Make decorative vent holes on the cakes by pricking with a fork, then place them on a baking sheet lined with parchment paper.

用叉子在它们的表面上扎出装饰性的小孔，然后把它们放到铺上烘烤纸的烤盘上。

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He repeated the standard arguments for why central bankers should not target house prices: that bubbles can be identified only after the fact, and that pricking them with higher interest rates might do more harm than good.

ECONOMIST: Economics focus

He argued that pre-emptive bubble-pricking rested on three assumptions, none of them likely to be met.

ECONOMIST: Assets and their liabilities