However, the automotive sector's boom now appears to be running out of gas.

然而，现在汽车行业的繁荣暴露了汽油的短缺。

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In Europe that should be countries such as Germany and the Netherlands that were running vast current-account surpluses during the boom.

在欧洲可能是像德国和荷兰这些在繁荣期有大量的经常账户盈余。

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Even before the current price boom started two years ago, food aid was running at historically low levels, perhaps half the real-terms total of two decades earlier.

即使在此次粮价开始上涨的两年前，食品援助已处于历史较低水平，以实值计算或许只有二十年前的一半。

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Indeed, training regimens haven't changed much since the early days of the running boom in the late 1960s.

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But don't expect the running boom to grind to a halt.

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The long-running housing market boom could turn out to be a speculative bubble whose bursting damages economic confidence and growth.

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