Or a necessary way to subsidize prices in the age of readable bits?

还是在读物稀缺的时代来弥补价格的一种必要方式？

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Several countries, including China and India, continue to subsidize consumer fuel costs and in some cases have cut gas-station prices this year as oil prices have surged.

随着油价的上涨，包括中国和印度在内的一些国家今年继续实施消费者燃油补贴，在有些情况下甚至下调了汽油零售价。

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The Egyptian government had been using profits from the oil trade to subsidize food prices.

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"The historic response, if you like, is has always been to look to subsidize, to insulate the impact of the fluctuations of exchange rates and commodity prices by looking to subsidize ... things like bread, " Hanna told CNN.

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Where once the West relied on China's lack of environmental enforcement to tamp down rare-earth prices and implicitly subsidize high-tech goods, in the future the nature of the subsidy will change so that China's cheap(er) labor will subsidize Western mid-tech goods.

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