【英音模仿秀】“欧洲石油之都”阿伯丁

 模仿文本：The oil industry in Scotland¹ is a huge business by any standards. It employs 450,000 people in Britain and last year paid taxes of six and a half billion pounds. That's almost $11 billion at current² exchange rates. No surprise then that the oil and gas industry has been a key battleground in the run-up to the independence vote as I have been discovering. 

无论从何种标准来看，苏格兰的石油产业都是数一数二的。这里的石油产业保证了英国45万人的饭碗，去年纳税额是65亿英镑。以目前汇率来看相当于110亿美元。因此就我所了解的，油气产业成为苏格兰独立公投前夕的重要战场本就是意料之中的事情。

 

 

1 Scotland   

n.苏格兰

参考例句：

• He has been hiking round Scotland for a month.他围着苏格兰徒步旅行了一个月。
• Scotland is to the north of England.苏格兰在英格兰之北。

2 current   

n.涌流，趋势，电流，水流，气流；adj.当前的，通用的，流通的，现在的，草写的，最近的

参考例句：

• Electric current is often powerful enough to kill a man.电流常强得足以致命。
• There is a story about her in the current number.最近一期上有关于她的故事。