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8:45 a.m., Saint Ouen L'Aumone, an industrial estate near Paris
上午8時45分，巴黎附近的工業(yè)區(qū)圣烏昂洛莫納
The 007 theme blares out again. Moore jolts awake from a nap.
007電影的主題曲再次喧囂起來，摩爾從午睡中醒來。
It's Ellis Blackham, JJX's 21-year-old logistics account manager. "Hi, Rog, how's it going?"
電話是快遞公司JJX Logistics的21歲物流客戶經(jīng)理埃利斯·布萊克姆打來的。“嗨，羅格，你怎么樣？”
Like Moore, Blackham voted Leave. He expected Brexit to boost demand for logistics services.
和摩爾一樣，布萊克姆也投票脫歐，他希望脫歐能夠提高對物流服務(wù)的需求。
So far, he's right: JJX's warehouses are filled with stockpiled goods, from Heineken lager to Nivea skin lotion.
到目前為止，他是對的：JJX的倉庫里堆滿了從喜力啤酒到妮維雅護膚液等各種庫存商品。
"Still waiting for the goods to come back," Moore replies. "Shouldn't be too much."
“還在等著貨品回來呢，”摩爾回答說“應(yīng)該不會有太多吧。”
His drive to Paris went without a hitch. He's bringing more airplane parts on his return.
他開車去的巴黎，旅途一帆風(fēng)順。他回來時帶了更多的飛機部件。
"Good man," Blackham says. "It's still looking clear back to Calais. You shouldn't have any problems."
“挺好的，”布萊克姆說道。“往加萊走依然一路暢通，應(yīng)該不會有任何問題。”
The situation at Dover is less rosy—queues are forming—but coming the other way should be fine.
多佛的情況不太樂觀，開始排隊了，但從另一條路過來應(yīng)該沒問題。
"Thanks, mate. Ta-rah." Moore hangs up. Once the fresh crate appears, he gets back on the road and flicks on BBC Radio 4:
“謝謝，老兄，回見。” 摩爾掛斷電話。裝好新的大木箱后，他又上路了，打開BBC廣播4臺：
The pound is falling further; protests and counterprotests continue outside Parliament; queues are forming at the border between Spain and the British territory of Gibraltar.
英鎊進一步下跌；抗議活動和反抗議活動繼續(xù)在國會大廈外進行；在西班牙和直布羅陀的英國領(lǐng)土之間的邊界處車輛正在排隊。
9:30 a.m., near Stafford, West Midlands, central England
上午9時30分，英格蘭中部西米德蘭茲郡斯塔福德附近
The smell of melting acrylic fills the factory floor at Goodfish Ltd.
古德菲什有限公司的地板上彌漫著融化的丙烯酸纖維氣味。
Machines whir noisily, pumping hot plastic into moulds to make handles for violin cases, rake heads for golf bunkers, fog-light holders for Mini automobiles.
機器發(fā)出嘈雜的嗡鳴聲，熱塑料泵入模具中，制成小提琴箱的把手、高爾夫沙坑的耙頭、微型汽車的霧燈支架。
