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3:30 p.m., Isle of Mull, Scotland
下午3點30分，蘇格蘭莫爾島
The final batch of the 100,000 lemon melt shortbreads Joe Reade's biscuit factory produces each day are turning gold in his industrial oven.
喬·雷德的餅干廠每天生產的最后一批10萬個檸檬奶油酥餅，在他的工業烤箱里變成了黃金。
A dozen white-coated, hair-netted workers, including Poles and Romanians, mix Irish butter, Sicilian lemon oil, Brazilian sugar, and British flour.
包括波蘭人和羅馬尼亞人在內的十幾名頭發梳理整齊的白衣工人，將愛爾蘭黃油、西西里檸檬油、巴西蔗糖和英國面粉混合在一起。
They bake the resulting dough at 200C before dipping the biscuits in Belgian white chocolate.
他們先在200攝氏度烘烤面團，然后將餅干蘸上比利時白巧克力。
Then they wrap the treats in cream-colored packets bearing the Island Bakery name in dark-blue lettering.
隨后，他們用奶油色的包裝袋包裝好食物，包裝上面用深藍色字體寫著海島面包店的名字。
Come 4 p.m., the production line stops. Boxes of shortbreads are loaded onto trucks, to be taken by ferry to the Scottish mainland, then on to Germany and the Netherlands.
下午4點時，生產線停工。整箱的奶油酥餅裝上卡車，用渡輪運到蘇格蘭大陸，然后再運到德國和荷蘭。
British Airways is one of Reade's biggest customers, but in all, 25% of his sales come from exports to the EU.
英國航空公司是雷德最大的客戶之一，但總的來說，其銷售額的25%來自對歐盟的出口。
There'll be no exporting to Europe today.
今天，不可能出口到歐洲了。
The license certifying his biscuits as an organic food—he also heats his oven with renewable wood and generates his own electricity from a wind turbine—is no longer valid.
證明其餅干為有機食品的許可證已經失效，他還用可再生木材加熱烤箱，用風力發電機發電。
He'll need a new one from the EU to sell his product there,
他需要歐盟頒發的新許可證，以便在那里銷售其產品。
and its rules prevented him from applying for it until the U.K. had actually left. It could be months before the permit is approved.
而規則規定，只有英國離開歐盟后，他才能進行申請，那可能要等幾個月。
"This is total madness," Reade mutters under his breath.
“這簡直是瘋了，”雷德低聲咕噥道。
He took precautionary measures, encouraging his European customers to bring forward orders to beat the Brexit deadline.
他采取了預防措施，鼓勵其歐洲客戶提出訂單，以打破脫歐的最后期限。
He doesn't need to ship to the Continent for a few weeks, but then the pain will start.
他幾周內不需要去歐洲大陸，但是令人頭疼的事情還是會開始。
Reade wants Scotland to break away from the U.K. and rejoin the EU. Recent opinion polls suggest a majority of Scots agree.
里德希望蘇格蘭脫離英國，重新加入歐盟。最近的民意調查顯示，大多數蘇格蘭人都表示同意。
