在线销售与云服务双剑合璧，亚马逊季度利润创新高

Amazon has reported record quarterly profits helped by a rise in online sales and demand for its cloud services.

得益于在线销售和对其云服务需求的增长，亚马逊公布的季度利润创新高。

Profits hit a record $2.53bn (?1.9bn) in the three months to the end of June - about 12 times more than it made during the same period last year.

截至6月底以来的三个月，亚马逊利润达到创纪录的25.3亿美元（约合19亿英镑） ，比去年同期增长了约12倍。

Sales rose by 39% to $52.89bn, slightly less than analysts had been forecasting.

销售额增长39％，达52.89亿美元，略低于之前分析师的预测。

Amazon’s shares jumped more than 3% in after-hours trade.

亚马逊的股价在盘后交易上涨超过3%。

It was a strong quarter, said chief financial officer Brian Olsavsky. "What I attribute it to is continued strength in some of our most profitable areas."

“这是一个强劲的季度，”首席财务官布赖恩.奥尔萨夫斯基(BrianOlSavsky)表示。“我认为这是因为我们在一些最赚钱的领域保持了持续高水平的实力。”

At the firm’s lucrative cloud services division, Amazon Web Services, sales were up nearly 50% year-on-year to $6.1bn.

在该公司利润丰厚的云服务部门-亚马逊网络服务公司，其销售额同比增长近50％，达61亿美元。

Amazon is also starting to attract more money from advertising.

亚马逊也开始从广告中获得更多盈利。

Revenue from the firm’s "other" category, which includes advertising, more than doubled to about $2.2bn.

该公司“其他”类别的收入，包括广告，增长了一倍以上，达到约22亿美元。

Retail sales in North America were healthy as well, rising about 44% to almost $32.2bn.

北美的零售额业绩也很漂亮，增长约44％，达到近322亿美元

Recruitment slowed in the quarter. Amazon is also starting to reap the benefits of previous infrastructure investments, allowing for less rapid spending growth, Mr Olsavsky said.

招聘工作在本季度放缓。奥尔萨夫斯基表示，亚马逊也开始从之前的基础设施投资中获益，这减少了支出的增长速度。

Daniel Ives, chief strategy officer at GBH Insights, said Amazon’s profitability appears to be accelerating faster than expected.

GBH Insights首席战略官丹尼尔艾夫斯(Daniel Ives)表示，亚马逊的盈利速度似乎比预期的要快。

That, he wrote, will be "music to ears of investors" who have stood by Amazon and its famously long-term approach to deferring profit in favour of reinvesting in the company.

他写道，这将是那些支持亚马逊的“投资者的佳音”，同时这也将成为亚马逊长期以来，为了再投资而延迟盈利的著名方式。

Amazon is expected to account for roughly half of online sales in the US this year, according to research firm eMarketer.

根据研究公司eMarketer的数据显示，预计亚马逊的销售额今年将占到美国在线销售额的大约一半。

The company told investors that it expects third quarter sales in the range of $54bn- $57.5bn, growth of 23% to 31%.

公司告诉投资者，预计第三季度销售额将在540亿与575亿美元之间，增长23%至31%。