The FAO said the cost of almost all major commodities, like grains and oils, rose last month, while the cost of meats remained unchanged.

联合国粮农组织说，如粮食和食用油类等几乎所有主要商品价格上个月都上涨，而肉类价格则保持不变。

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These events are the ups and downs and imperfections in life, which like grains of sand in an oyster, may be painful, but often have beautiful results.

这些事情是在我生命中的一些起伏和不完美，就像是牡蛎中的沙粒，可能会让人感到不舒服，但是通常最后结果产生的那颗珍珠是美好的。

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Bioethanol firms currently extract sugars from crops like grains and sugar beet, but some are developing technologies to extract energy from fibre such as wheat bran, straw or wood.

那些从事生物乙醇生产的公司目前已经普遍能够从谷物和甜菜等农作物中提取出糖的成份，但还有一些公司对此仍不满足，他们眼下正在致力于从包括麦麸、稻草以及木材在内的众多富含纤维的物质中获取能源。

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Thiamine is found not just in whole grains like brown rice, but also in other foods.

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You've got things like grains and fruits that we know people should be eating.

还有多吃谷物和水果,它们显然对人体很有利

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If you take one of those individual grains of sodium chloride, look at it carefully, you will see the edges look like this.

如果你拿起,氯化钠晶体的一粒，仔细观察，你可以看到这样的棱角。

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Rogers says "soft" commodities like grains, oilseeds and fabrics, which have generally not shared in the boom, are likely to outperform.

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Certain agricultural markets, like grains and livestock, already had federally mandated position limits, but position limits for energies and metals were set by the exchange.

FORBES: CFTC Position Limits Rule Divides Agency, Angers Market Participants

Cirrocumulus is high cloud that looks like grains of salt.

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