1. Price is soaring. If it goes on like this, we shall not be able to keep the pot boiling.

物價直線上升，這樣子下去，我們都快要揭不開鍋了。

2. Prices are running wild all over the country.

全國的物價都在暴漲。

3. The recent rise in prices tells heavily on low-salaried employees.

最近的物價上漲對低收入雇員的影響最大。

4. General household goods and food prices have definitely gone up. I’m spending a lot more across the board.

日常用品和食物價格肯定上漲了，總體來說我的支出多了很多。

5. Prices are biting. We will have no alternative but to cut consumption the way the prices are going up.

物價高得都要吃人了，我們除了減少開支沒別的法子。

6. We have been barely surviving because the profit has been totally wiped out by the high cost of materials.

我們現在只是勉強在維持生計，原料成本都漲了，生意沒什么利潤可言。

7. Prices are exorbitantly high in the capital.

首都的物價高得不可思議。

8. Several companies gang up to raise prices.

幾家公司串通一氣抬高物價。

9. Prices have gone through the roof.

物價飛漲。

10. Prices keep rising at a dizzy rate.

物價以令人眩暈的速度不斷上漲。

11. The rise in prices nullified the rise in wages.

上漲的物價使增加的工資化為烏有。

12. Electricity has gone up – you put ￡10 in the electricity meter and it’s gone immediately.

電費也漲了，買10英鎊的電一下就用完了。