消费者近期粮油需求增长

时间：2011-06-14 08:33:28

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Commodities¹ trading giant Glencore has reported a sharp rise in profits and revenue² thanks to strong demand for grain and oil in particular.

受消费者对粮食和食用油需求激增的影响，日用品交易巨头嘉能可国际盈利显著增长。

Net profit for the first three months of the year was $1.3bn (£800m), up 47% on the $886m the company made a year earlier. Revenue was up 39% to $44.2bn.

These are the first results Glencore has published since becoming a publicly-listed company last month.

The listing was London's largest initial³ public offering.

Glencore is the world's largest commodities（商品，日用品） trader, employing about 57,500 people across more than 40 countries. It made a profit of $3.8bn on revenues⁴ of $145bn last year.

It trades metals and minerals, as well as energy and agricultural products, and has benefited from the recent growth in demand for commodities, especially from China.

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1 commodities
商品( commodity的名词复数 )；农产品；有价值的物品；有用的东西
参考例句：
rice, flour and other basic commodities 稻米、面粉和其他基本商品 The manufacturers in some countries dumped their surplus commodities abroad. 一些国家的制造商向国外倾销过剩产品。

2 revenue
n.总收入，财政收入，税收；税务局
参考例句：
The country diminished the revenue by reducing tax.这个国家通过减税而使税收减少了。 A government's revenue and expenditure should be balanced.政府的财政收入和支出要平衡。

3 initial
adj.最初的，开始的，词首的；n.首字母，姓名的开头字母；vt.标注姓名的首字母于
参考例句：
After she'd overcome her initial shyness,she became very friendly.她克服了起初的羞怯之后，变得十分友善。 The experiments have given initial results eventually.那些试验总算初见成效了。

4 revenues
收入( revenue的名词复数 )； [复数]总收入；收入来源；税务局
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Revenues from oil are the biggest single component part in the country's income. 来自石油的收益是这个国家收入中最高的一项。 Under the cash basis of accounting most receipts of money are revenues and most expenditures of money are expenses. 按现金收付制规定，企业收到的现金大都作为收入处理，付出的现金大都作为费用处理。