美国酷热天气可能抬高全球粮价_BEC初级作文

美国酷热天气可能抬高全球粮价

An intense heatwave is threatening havoc with this year's US grain harvest, burning up hopes of blockbuster yields and sending prices soaring.

一场热浪正威胁今年美国的谷物收成。它浇灭了丰收的希望，谷物价格随之暴涨。

Even a modest reduction in crops could send ripples through global food commodities markets, as the US is the world's top exporter of corn, soyabeans and wheat and stocks of the first two are relatively low.

由于美国是世界最大的玉米、大豆、小麦出口国，而玉米和大豆的储量都相对较低，因此即使是收成的小幅降低，也会在全球粮食大宗商品市场引起连锁反应。

Soyabean prices have surged to the highest level since the 2007-08 food crisis and the price of this year's corn crop has risen 30 per cent since mid-June. Worries about the size of the US crop come only months after drought hit the Latin American soyabean belt of Brazil, Argentina, Uruguay and Paraguay.

大豆价格已上涨至2007年和2008年粮食危机以来的最高水平，而今年玉米作物的价格自6月中旬以来已经上涨30%。在干旱袭击拉美地区巴西、阿根廷、乌拉圭和巴拉圭的大豆种植带数月之后，人们就开始担忧美国的收成情况。

Top US farming states such as Illinois and Indiana had suffered temperatures above 38ºC (100ºF) for several days already, with no let-up this week. "The forecast is going to remain pretty much the same over the next week. We're not looking at much of a break in the heat," said Matt Barnes, meteorologist at the National Weather Service's central Illinois office.