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请把下面的汉语翻译成一句英文：

 

中国政府这星期早些时候说，将把汽油价格上调6.5%，柴油价格上调7%，这是将近3年来的最大上调幅度。

参考答案：

The (Chinese) government said earlier this week that it was raising gas prices by 6.5 percent and diesel by 7 percent -- the biggest price hike in China in nearly three years.

 

hike noun

plural hikes

[count] 1: a usually long walk especially for pleasure or exercise
▪ We went for a hike around the lake.▪ a 10-mile hike

 

2: a usually sudden increase in the cost, level, or amount of something
▪ The school lost a number of students after the tuition hike.▪ a price/tax/wage hike

 

 

 

 

take a hike

US, informal + impolite— used in speech as an angry way of telling someone to leave

  

  

¹in /ˈɪn, ən/ preposition

  

 

4 b: at the end of (a period of time)
▪ I'll be there in a minute.▪ The movie is coming out in a few months.▪ He got his degree in only three years.