||1:Adventurous amateurs are well served by a homebrewing culture that has spread like yeast in an airing cupboard.||2:In the 1970s most bought a kit containing malt extract and a gloopy brown syrup which merely required the addition of water and a bit of patience.||3:Kits are still popular for the first-time brewers and there are plenty of online stores that will sell you one.||4:But home brewers are progressing to a set-up like a commercial brewery in miniature: mashing their own grain and selecting from an international array of malts and hops.

||1:敢于尝试的业余者们处于一个良好的氛围中，这种家庭酿造文化已如烘柜里的酵母般蔓延。||2:20世纪70年代多数人购买了小木桶，装入麦精和一种棕色糖浆，只需加水再耐心等待就行了。||3:小木桶在酿酒新手中仍备受欢迎，网上有很多商店贩卖这类小桶。||4:但家庭酿造者们也在进步，置备一整套类似于迷你商业酿造机器的设备：自己磨粮食，在国内外各种麦精和啤酒花中精挑细选。

||1:An independent Scotland would start life with a large budget deficit.||2:That would probably make it impossible to start an oil fund for some years, at least without big cuts to public expenditure.||3:And nationalists may well be overestimating how much of the gloopy stuff they can squeeze out.||4:Holyrood’s prediction for oil revenues in 2018 is twice Westminster’s estimates.||5:The difference is important.||6:With a big haul, Scotland’s politicians could perhaps afford to cosset oil firms.||7:Without one, the young nation might have to milk them harder than ever.

||1:一个独立的苏格兰将开始一种伴有巨大预算赤字的生活。||2:这可能会导致几年间无法启动石油基金，至少在没有公共支出没有大幅度消减的情况下无法启动。||3:民族主义者们可能高估了他们所能压榨出的那些黏糊糊的东西的价值。||4:荷里路德预测的2018年的石油收入是威斯敏斯特所估计的两倍。||5:这个中区别是异常重要的。||6:由于存在很大的距离，苏格兰的政客们可能要担负起“骄纵”石油公司的职责了。||7:如果没有人这样做，这个年轻的国家“喂养”他们可能会变得越来越难。

Transporting gas still brings big and stable revenues. But diversifying into oil makes sense too. America’s oil pipelines are largely unfettered by the rigid regulations that govern gas-pipeline tariffs. So transporting gloopy oil is far more profitable than shifting lighter-than-air gas.

天然气运输带来的收入仍然丰厚，而且稳定。但业务扩展到输油领域也很有意义。在美国，输气管道要缴纳的关税被法规严格规定，而输油管道几乎没有这种束缚。因此，与输送比空气还轻的天然气相比，输送粘稠的石油收益要高得多。

In an understated way, this large, gloopy , single-celled organism is a beast of surprising intelligence.

以理解的角度来说，这种巨大的，粘糊糊的，单细胞生命体是拥有惊人智力的野兽。