As Labour heads to Liverpool this week, Andy Burnham has promised to deliver “stability(稳定)” in the public finances; but the economic backdrop is anything but(根本不，绝不) stable.
本周工党前往利物浦开会，安迪·伯纳姆承诺实现公共财政的“稳定”；但经济背景却极不稳定。
The longer the US-Israeli war on Iran persists, the more likely it is that UK consumers will have to swallow(忍受，承受) higher mortgage rates and energy bills – just as the government is wrestling with its own surging(飙升的，激增的) borrowing costs.
美国-以色列对伊朗的战争持续越久，英国消费者就越可能不得不承受更高的抵押贷款利率和能源账单——而政府自身也在竭力应对飙升的借贷成本。
We are only a few weeks into(进入…几周) the three-month period tracking energy price moves that the regulator for Great Britain, Ofgem(英国天然气和电力市场办公室), will use as a basis to set the energy price cap in January – but it’s been a pretty bleak(黯淡的，凄凉的) period so far, with the cost of a barrel of crude(原油) above $100 for much of that time.
我们刚刚进入为期三个月的能源价格走势跟踪期，英国监管机构 Ofgem 将以此为基础在明年1月设定能源价格上限——但迄今为止，这段时间相当黯淡，大部分时间每桶原油价格都在100美元以上。