小麦价格昨日跃升至历史新高，因为小麦供应十分紧俏，引起了人们对全球食品价格将大幅上涨的担忧，恐慌的买家纷纷涌入市场。
|  | Wheatprices jumped to an all-time high yesterday as panicked buyers rushedinto the market amid extremely tight supplies, raising fears of aglobal food inflation spike.
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全球第二大小麦出口国加拿大警告，由于恶劣的气候影响了农作物收成（就像欧洲和澳大利亚一样），加拿大今年小麦的产量可能比去年下降近20%。
| Canada,the world’s second largest wheat exporter, warned output might bealmost 20 per cent below last year as adverse weather damaged the cropas it had done in Europe and Australia.
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依赖于进口小麦供应的日本和台湾在国际市场购买了更多小麦。印度也下了巨额订单，赶在需求高峰期到来之前补充库存。
| Japanand Taiwan, which depend on foreign wheat supplies, bought new cargoesin the international market while India launched a large tender to beefup its inventories ahead of its peak demand season.
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译者/李碧波
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发表于 2007-8-24 08:22
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