A cap on the cost-of-living adjustment, for example, would be a nightmare for pensioners were inflation to flare up, because they would have no way of making up the loss in their purchasing power.

比如，如果通胀爆发，那么对于生活成本上限的调整将成为靠养老金生活的人的恶魔，因为他们对于自身购买力的失去将无计可施。

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Adjustment of pay rate, usually based on performance, cost of living, or promotion.

工资标准的调整，通常是根据工作表现，生活费用，和升职。

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Raise Adjustment of pay rate, usually based on performance, cost of living, or promotion.

加薪工资标准的调整，通常是根据工作表现，生活费用，和升职。

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The way Social Security is set up is each year there's a cost-of-living adjustment.

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The way the system works is you automatically get a cost-of-living adjustment based on the inflation rate.

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Earlier this month, President Barack Obama proposed to tweak the formula for calculating the cost-of-living adjustment, or COLA, for Social Security recipients.

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