1. Much of the language used to describe monetary policy, such as steering the economy to a soft landing of a touch on the brakes , makes it sound like a precise science. Nothing could be further from the truth.

　　有很多用于描述貨幣政策的詞匯，例如 輕踩剎車 以 操縱經濟軟著陸 ，使貨幣政策聽起來像是一門精確的科學。沒有什么比這更遠離實際情況的了。

　　2. Economists have been particularly surprised by favorable inflation figures in Britain and the United States, since, conventional measures suggest that both economies, and especially Americas, have little productive slack.

　　經濟學家們對英國和美國的有利的通貨膨脹數據尤其感到驚訝，因為傳 統的計量方法顯示兩國的經濟，特別是美國的經濟，幾乎沒有生產蕭條的時候。