commodity

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  • n.商品；产品；货物；商品经济
  • Web日用品；品名；大宗商品
Plural Form：commodities  

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Commodity
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1.
商品a product or a raw material that can be bought and sold
rice, flour and other basic commodities
稻米、面粉和其他基本商品
a drop in commodity prices
商品价格的下跌
Crude oil is the world's most important commodity.
原油是世界上最重要的商品。
2.
有用的东西；有使用价值的事物a thing that is useful or has a useful quality
Water is a precious commodity that is often taken for granted in the West.
水很宝贵，但在西方国家人们往往意识不到这一点。

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Money is just a commodity, and it is quite ridiculous to put the blame on a non-living object when things go wrong.
金钱只是一种商品，而当事情一旦出错，就把责任归咎于一个没有生命的物体上，这是如此的荒谬不合逻辑！
jīn qián zhǐ shì yī zhǒng shāng pǐn , ér dāng shì qíng yí dàn chū cuò , jiù bǎ zé rèn guī jiù yú yī gè méi yǒu shēng mìng de wù tǐ shàng , zhè shì rú cǐ de huāng miù bù hé luó jí !
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Beginning with the commodity, the simplest element of capitalism, he made a thorough study of the economic structure of capitalist society.
他从资本主义最单纯的因素——商品开始，周密地研究了资本主义社会的经济结构。
tā cóng zī běn zhǔ yì zuì dān chún de yīn sù —— shāng pǐn kāi shǐ , zhōu mì de yán jiū le zī běn zhǔ yì shè huì de jīng jì jié gòu 。
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Demand curve----A function that relates the quantity of a commodity or serve consumers wish to purchase to the price of that commodity.
需求曲线——一个关联到商品数量或服务消费者愿望的与这个商品购买价格关系的函数。
xū qiú qū xiàn — — yī gè guān lián dào shāng pǐn shù liàng huò fú wù xiāo fèi zhě yuàn wàng de yǔ zhè ge shāng pǐn gòu mǎi jià gé guān xì de hán shù 。
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You know how much coffee is worth, when treated as a commodity as a bean?
你知道咖啡值多少钱吗？当我们只把咖啡豆作为商品的时候。
nǐ zhī dào kā fēi zhí duō shao qián ma ? dāng wǒ men zhǐ bǎ kā fēi dòu zuò wéi shāng pǐn de shí hou 。
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During the past four months the NOK has shown a strong correlation with a commodity index like the CRB shown here.
在过去四个月挪威克朗呈现出与商品指数CRB有很强的相关性。
zài guò qù sì gè yuè nuó wēi kè lǎng chéng xiàn chū yǔ shāng pǐn zhǐ shù CRB yǒu hěn qiáng de xiāng guān xìng 。
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Now, over the last century, we tend to think of commodity exchanges as the purview of Western industrialized countries.
如今，回顾上个世纪，我们趋向于认为商品交易所是西方工业国家的特权。
rú jīn , huí gù shàng gè shì jì , wǒ men qū xiàng yú rèn wéi shāng pǐn jiāo yì suǒ shì xī fāng gōng yè guó jiā de tè quán 。
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'It is very easy to read too much into the data, ' said Antoine Halff, deputy head of research at commodity brokerage firm Newedge USA.
大宗商品经纪公司NewedgeUSA研究部副主任哈尔夫（AntoineHalff）说，这些数据很容易被过度解读。
dà zōng shāng pǐn jīng jì gōng sī NewedgeUSA yán jiū bù fù zhǔ rèn hā ěr fū ( AntoineHalff ) shuō , zhè xiē shù jù hěn róng yì bèi guò dù jiě dú 。
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"We forecast the commodity cycle to transition through 2008 into a clear downturn by 2009, " the bank said in a report in February.
该银行在2月的一份报告中称：“我们预期，本轮大宗化工产品周期的过渡将跨越2008年，到2009年，将出现明显的低迷。”
gāi yín háng zài èr yuè de yī fèn bào gào zhōng chēng : " wǒ men yù qī , běn lún dà zōng huà gōng chǎn pǐn zhōu qī de guò dù jiāng kuà yuè èr líng líng bā nián , dào èr líng líng jiǔ nián , jiāng chū xiàn míng xiǎn de dī mí 。 "
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Once the commodity market had been made to look more like the stock market, bankers could expect new influxes of ready cash.
一旦商品市场转变成与股票市场更相似的模样，银行家们就可以开拓新的生财之道了。
yí dàn shāng pǐn shì chǎng zhuǎn biàn chéng yǔ gǔ piào shì chǎng gèng xiāng sì de mú yàng , yín háng jiā men jiù kě yǐ kāi tuò xīn de shēng cái zhī dào le 。
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Excepting pocket money, cash of any kind is now rarely used; money as a tangible commodity has largely been replaced by credit.
除了零用钱，任何形式的现金现在都用的很少，钱作为一种有形的商品已经很大程度上被信用卡代替了。
chú le líng yòng qián , rèn hé xíng shì de xiàn jīn xiàn zài dōu yòng de hěn shǎo , qián zuò wéi yī zhǒng yǒu xíng de shāng pǐn yǐ jīng hěn dà chéng dù shàng bèi xìn yòng kǎ dài tì le 。
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