China is hoovering up ever more commodities not just because its economy is growing so quickly, but also because that growth is concentrated in industries that use lots of resources.

中国吃进更多大宗商品并不是由于其经济增长如此迅猛，而是由于这种经济增长是集中在使用大量资源的那些工业中。

youdao

There are some very smart people - not least, George Soros - who believe that we're in a commodities bubble (although Mr. Soros says that the bubble is still in its "growth phase").

有些非常聪敏的人，不至是乔治·索罗斯，相信我们已经处在商品泡沫之中(尽管索罗斯先生说这个泡泡任在增长阶段)。

youdao

Its consumers are either able to get from abroad commodities at a lower price than they could obtain them for at home, or commodities that they could not get from domestic producers at all.

是进口，让一个国家的消费者能以比国内更便宜的价格，买到外国的商品；

youdao

Patrick Yau, an analyst at Macquarie Research, thinks Olam's earnings per share will grow an average of 14% over two years, even though several of its commodities, which spiked not long ago, have plunged back down.

FORBES: Magazine Article

Africa's problem is that it's not earning enough money and that's largely because the prices paid for its commodities, its minerals and its agricultural produce, has gone down by something like 60 percent in the last decade.

NPR: Debt Deal Does Little for Africa's Core Problems