No post-holiday blues here. A year's early months are typically a slow period for consumer electronics. But not for Apple Inc., which will likely ride buoyant demand for its hardware to rack up yet another strong quarter when it releases earnings Tuesday.
处可无节日过后的忧郁情绪。年初几个月通常是电子产品的消费淡季。但对苹果公司(Apple Inc.)而言却并非如此。苹果公司将于周二发布一季度盈利报告，届时很可能借助用户对其硬件设备需求旺盛之东风，再次公布一个业绩强劲的季报。
Though the most-recent period doesn't include sales from Apple's ballyhooed iPad -- which launched in early April -- the company's business in iPhones, iPods and Macintosh computers is plenty rosy.
尽管该季报并不包括苹果在4月初大力推出的iPad，但该公司的iPhones、 iPods及Macintosh电脑产品销售均火爆。
Analysts on average expect earnings for the company's fiscal second quarter to rise 37%, compared with earnings a year ago adjusted for an accounting change, to $2.45 a share, according to Thomson Reuters. That is higher than Apple's own forecast range of $2.06 to $2.18. Quarterly revenues are expected to jump 33% to $12.1 billion.
据汤森路透（Thomson Reuters）的统计，分析师平均而言，相比去年经会计准则调整后的盈利，预计苹果公司第二财季盈利增长37%至每股2.45美元，高于苹果公司自已预计的2.06至2.18美元。本季收入预计将大幅增长33%至121亿美元。
For that, Apple can thank expanding international sales of its iPhone, which are growing at a strong clip, in markets like China and South Korea. The company also recently added new carrier partners in Europe. Apple already has sold more than 50 million iPhones so far world-wide, Chief Executive Steve Jobs said earlier this month.
苹果公司应为此感谢iPhone产品在国际上的规模不断扩大的销售，iPhone在中国及韩国等市场销售非常强劲。该公司近期也在欧洲增加了新运营商合作伙伴。苹果首席执行长乔布斯(Steve Jobs)本月早些时候称，iPhone迄今在全球销售量已超过5000万个。
In the first quarter, analysts believe the company nearly doubled iPhone sales from a year earlier to 7 million to 7.5 million units.
分析师认为，第一季度iPhone的销售量已比去年翻了一番达700至750万个。
Another bright spot: Although the iPod business overall has been declining, Apple is getting more money from each sale as consumers upgrade their portable music players to more-expensive iPod touches.
另一个亮点是，尽管iPod业务总体一直呈现下滑，但随着消费者将便携式音乐播放器升级至价格更高的iPod touch，苹果公司从每台iPod产品中获得的利润却不断上升。
Still, it is hard to see those results lighting a fire under Apple's stock, which has nearly doubled in the past year. Investors, accustomed to upbeat results from the tech giant, are likely to want strong guidance, particularly on sales of the iPad to justify the shares' current valuation of 17.7 times expected earnings for the fiscal year ending in September 2011.
但这些骄人业绩仍难以推高苹果公司过去一年中已几乎翻番的股价。投资者已习惯了这个科技巨人公布强劲的业绩，因而，可能期待更强的业绩指导，特别是iPad的销售火爆使该股目前17.7倍的市盈率（以2011财年预期收益来计算）显得合理。苹果公司2011财年将于2011年9月结束。
'It's really the products rolling out over the next couple quarters that really matter,' said Robert Cihra, an analyst for Caris & Co.
咨询分析机构Caris & Co.的分析师Robert Cihra认为，真正重要的是此后几个季度中推出的产品。
Apple typically likes to set conservativeforecasts, but analysts already are looking for June quarter earnings of $2.69 a share on iPad and iPhone sales, according to Thomson Reuters, up from an adjusted $2.01 a year earlier.
苹果公司通常设定的预期较为保守，但汤森路透统计，分析师们已预计，因iPad及 iPhone销售火爆，6月份公布的季报盈利为每股2.69美元，高于去年同期经调整后的2.01美元。
That is the problem with making revolutionary products. Investors keep wanting more of them.
这是制造革命性产品需面临的一个问题：投资者总是期望更多。
Yukari Iwatani Kane
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