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【2022.7.23】 Asia
liquor license酒牌,烈酒经营许可证
no more + adj没有更怎么样
be greeted with/by受...欢迎,被...接待
break the law犯法(=do sth illegal)
obey the law遵守法律
enforce a law执行法律
flout a law藐视法律
if not用于引出比已说的话更有力的话repeal a law废止法律
this is how sth takes place某事就是这么发生的,某事的“打开方式”就是如此。
be permitted to do被允许做...
consume v.吃,喝
Few bother按程序走的没几个,没几个愿意去走这个程序。
black market黑市,地下经济
bring sth within the law使某事合法化
make sth adj使某事具有某性质
sth be made less adj某事的过程不再那么?
Gold Riband Gin金丝带杜松子酒
Old Rum朗姆老酒
Imperial Whisky帝国威士忌(
with an eye on着眼于,考虑到
take off突然成功
dress code着装标准;着装规定
not that并不是说,并非
not that there is any +n.没有任何...
fiscal year财政年度
knock sth back/knock back sth快速地喝完
but it seems likelier that ...但是还有更大的可能是??
help out排忧解难,帮?一把
keep quiet 保密
a whiff of(气味等)微弱的一阵
hard stuff烈性酒
any whiff of the hard stuff尾韵(end rhyme)修辞,一种语音修辞格,类似的还有头韵(alliteration)
legal or not不管是不是合法(让步状语)
Inside, it is no more inviting. Guests are greeted by a miasma of cigarette smoke, sweat, urine and liquor.
就算进去之后也没有出现什么惊喜：烟味、汗臭味、尿骚味和酒味混杂着扑面而来。
Yet dozens, if not hundreds, pass through the doors each day.
但每日进出埃拉姆酒吧的人没有几百也有好几十。
The permit declares that the holder “requires liquor on medical grounds” and is “hereby permitted to possess and consume foreign liquor”. Few bother. Most drinking is illicit and feeds a lucrative black market for imported liquor. Cases of people dying after drinking dodgy home-brew are not uncommon.
处方上须写明患者“由于健康原因需要酒精辅助治疗”，“特此允许持证人拥有并饮用洋酒”。当真去找医生开处方的也没几个人！大部分人选择“非法饮酒”，这就给洋酒黑市提供了无限商机。喝自酿酒中毒身亡的事故也屡见不鲜。
Not that there is any shortage of Bangladeshis to consume the booze.
倒也不是说喝酒的孟加拉国民就“不够数”！
The new laws should allow the government to make a little more money from selling alcohol. But legalizing liquor sales to all, however lucrative, remains off the table.
新规落地后，酒类销售也许能为政府贡献更多的收入。但是不管油水多肥，全民合法买酒喝在宗教国家仍是不可触碰的禁忌！
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第8章 第八篇
