时间:2019-01-26 作者:英语课 分类:经济学人商业系列


英语课

   Business Wine vandalism Draining mystery


  商业 葡萄酒之劫 正在流失的谜案
  Who pulled the plug?
  谁拔掉了瓶塞?
  BY THE time Gianfranco Soldera realised something was awry 1, it was too late.
  当Gianfranco Soldera意识到有些不对劲时,已为时太晚。
  "I rushed down into the cellar and all ten barrels of Brunello from the 2007 to 2012 vintages were open and the wine had gone off down the drains."
  "我匆忙跑下酒窖,但见全部十桶装有2007-2012年份的布鲁耐罗葡萄酒的橡木桶打翻在地,桶内的葡萄酒也已流干殆尽"。
  On the night of December 2nd someone broke into Mr Soldera's estate, emptied the massive oak casks of 62,600 litres of one of the world's great wines and left without stealing a thing.
  12月2日夜晚,有人闯入了Soldera先生的庄园,倒空了装有62,600升世界顶级葡萄酒的巨大橡木桶,然后悄然离开,不取分毫。
  Why is a mystery fit for Andrea Camilleri's fictional 2 Sicilian detective, Inspector 3 Montalbano. On Sicily, the explanation would be obvious:
  这个谜案正好留给安德列?卡米莱笔下虚构的西西里侦探芒塔尔班来解决,在西西里岛,此案动机显而易见:
  Italians immediately compared the attack on Mr Soldera's estate, known as Case Basse ("Low Houses"), to those on wineries confiscated 4 from the Mafia.
  意大利人立即就把受袭击的Soldera先生庄园,即Case Basse酒庄(矮屋)和从黑手党手中没收的酒庄联系到了一起。
  But Brunello comes from vineyards around Montalcino in Tuscany—a place where,
  然而,布鲁耐罗是来自托斯卡纳区蒙达奇诺附近的葡萄园。
  as the mayor noted 5, people still go out "leaving the key to the house in the front door".
  该地区是一个被市长称为 "人们外出都是把钥匙挂在前门"的地方。
  The 75-year-old Mr Soldera is not a Tuscan.
  现年75岁的Soldera先生不是托斯卡纳人。
  He was born near Venice. After a career in insurance, he arrived in Montalcino in the early 1970s to find the perfect spot for Sangiovese, the only grape allowed in Brunello.
  他出生在威尼斯附近。在从事了一份保险工作后,20世纪70年代初期,他来到了蒙达奇诺,发现了这个适合种植桑娇维赛葡萄的理想之地,桑娇维赛葡萄也是被用来酿造布鲁耐罗葡萄酒的唯一葡萄。
  He began producing 10,000-15,000 bottles a year of a light-bodied, floral, long-lived red that nowadays retails on release in Italy at up to

adj.扭曲的,错的
  • She was in a fury over a plan that had gone awry. 计划出了问题,她很愤怒。
  • Something has gone awry in our plans.我们的计划出差错了。
adj.小说的,虚构的
  • The names of the shops are entirely fictional.那些商店的名字完全是虚构的。
  • The two authors represent the opposite poles of fictional genius.这两位作者代表了天才小说家两个极端。
n.检查员,监察员,视察员
  • The inspector was interested in everything pertaining to the school.视察员对有关学校的一切都感兴趣。
  • The inspector was shining a flashlight onto the tickets.查票员打着手电筒查看车票。
没收,充公( confiscate的过去式和过去分词 )
  • Their land was confiscated after the war. 他们的土地在战后被没收。
  • The customs officer confiscated the smuggled goods. 海关官员没收了走私品。
adj.著名的,知名的
  • The local hotel is noted for its good table.当地的那家酒店以餐食精美而著称。
  • Jim is noted for arriving late for work.吉姆上班迟到出了名。
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AATP
agricultural shot
alcohol burner
all-purpose capillary viscosimeter
amidship(s)
anharmonic interaction
banded anteater
barong Tagalogs
blood cooker
bond-holders
Burkinan
butthead against
Cape Verde Islands
Catabrom
chimerisms
cobaltic chloride
cohyponym
compilation statistic report
cooperative motive
copyright office
critical speed of revolutions
dangerous property
data transmission unit
DEHFT
dividing ruler
double-suction centrifugal pump
echokinetic
eduction
electrodrill
emergent current
evaluating indicator
fine lady
forthfets
forward nodal point
free shrinkage
full scale development (fsd)
gyroscopic-clinograph method
handy carrier (h.c.)
heart-searchings
heavier element
hemolysis index
humidious
I'll call the police
jewed down
lateral wind axis
Lathyrus dielsianus
lead-in lines
leak test by filling water
legislative control on administration
Life Cap
Lysimachia candida
malonamic acid
metal-rich
middl
miniwatt amplifier
monitor cavity
mucocellular
multistep attenuator
Muniz Ferrira
naked option writing
natural sampling
net-shaped crack
newbegin
Nicotiana rustica L.
nonruminant
nzengs
oil seal felt
only that
operator control address vector table
over-socialized
parallel applicative database engine
pars tuberalis (lobi glandularis hypophyseos)
peak separation
pipelay vessel
pressure per unit of area
Priorian
purseseine
quartermaster
reductively
rolling stock damage
run bases
set-theoretical
Shelly's sign
squared the circle
SSEGC
stampfer
stand upon their dignity
statistical graphic symbols
Strawberry Point
sucking fit
survey on completion
Taocheng Jushi
thermal efficiency index
thioglycolic
three moment equation
timber structural system
torn fibers
transfer of debentures
variable error
weeviled
xyloglyphy
zests