But it soon became clear that the wage and price controls for repressing inflation were untenable and doing great damage to the economy -- so they were abolished by the end of 1973.

• 但情况很快明朗，通过控制工资和物价来抑制通货膨胀的做法难以维系，会给经济带来很大损害，因而这些做法在1973年末被取消了。