当我第一次怀孕购买孕妇装的时候，我拿起一件普通的牛仔裤看到上面的价格标签是150美元时，我简直以为自己是在做梦呢。

While shopping for maternity wear during my first pregnancy I thought I had to be dreaming when I picked up a plain pair of jeans and saw the price tag:$150.

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俄国人或许以为1992年初价格管制放开时他们的储蓄才开始蒸发，但事实上，在此之前他们的现钞就已经一钱不值了。

Russians may have thought that their savings evaporated when prices were liberalised at the start of 1992; in truth, their cash was already worthless.

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“价格总是上升，而薪水难以为继”，计算机程序员佩雷拉表示。

"Prices are always going up, and salaries can't keep up," said Pereira, a computer programmer.

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