苏格兰

RBS could close some of its corporate branches and concentrate on the NatWest retail brand.

苏格兰皇家银行则可能关闭它的企业部门然后把精力集中在零售银行品牌耐特威斯特上。

Natwest made RBS a leading player in the European and US debt markets, which were at the beginning of a long boom.

随着苏格兰皇家银行试图在不进行并购的情况下保持其增长率，因此投行业务发挥了越来越重要的作用。

It was also the Natwest acquisition that would give RBS a foothold in investment banking, a business that Sir Fred did not fully understand and that would ultimately bring about his downfall.

同时，正是收购Natwest的交易，让苏格兰皇家银行在投资银行领域立足，并最终导致弗雷德爵士下台。弗雷德爵士对该业务并不完全理解。

Before Natwest, RBS was a bank with a proud heritage – it received a royal charter from King George I in 1727 – and a modest balance sheet.

在收购Natwest之前，苏格兰皇家银行是一家拥有骄傲传统和较小资产负债表的银行——1727年，该银行获得了乔治一世国王颁发的皇家特许。

Bowing to pressure from irate customers at NatWest, its parent, Royal Bank of Scotland, is hiring 6 000 more staff so that people will no longer have to deal with an answering machine.

迫于纳特威斯特地区怨声载道的顾客们的压力，总行苏格兰皇家银行正在雇用6000名新职员。如此一来，顾客便不必再同语音电话打交道了。

It too ended in monetary collapse, namely the secondary banking crisis, which came close to necessitating the public rescue of NatWest (accomplished 35 years later, courtesy of the Royal Bank of Scotland).

它也以货币崩溃——被称之为次级银行业危机——而告终，并几乎迫使政府为国民西敏寺银行纾困（35年后由苏格兰皇家银行代为完成）。

The trick, of course, was to build a boat far tougher than the Jeannette, and in 1891 Nansen hired a brilliant Norwegian naval architect of Scottish descent named Colin Archer to do just that.

南森这想法的诀窍当然就在于要造出一艘远比吉内特号结实的船，于是在1891年，南森聘请出色的挪威籍苏格兰裔海军设计师柯林·阿奇尔来负责这件事。

"As the most popular tourist attraction in Scotland, Nessie's influence on the cash flow of that country has been significant," wrote the authors of "The 101 most influential people who never lived."

作者在书中解释道："尼斯湖是苏格兰最受欢迎的旅游景点，它对大量资金流入当地具有举足轻重的作用。"上一篇：美国第三亿个人"花落谁家"？

According to a study by Dr David Weeks, a clinical neuropsychologist at the Royal Edinburgh Hospital in Scotland and co-author of Superyoung (1999), men and women who reported having sex an average of four times per week looked approximately 10 years younger than they really were.

性爱让你看起来更年轻，任职於苏格兰皇家爱丁堡医院并共同著有 Superyoung 这本书的临床神经心理学医师 David Weeks 在他的研究中指出，每周有平均四次以上性爱的人，他们看起来比实际的年龄还要年轻 10 岁。

Ben Nevis is Scotland's highest peak.

本内维斯山是苏格兰最高的。。。

According to the clear water experiment, aeration performance of the new equipment is good with high total oxygen transfer coefficient and oxygen utilization ratio.

曝气设备的动力效率在叶轮转速为120rpm～150rpm时取得最大值，此时氧利用率和充氧能力也具有较高值。

The environmental stability of that world - including its crushing pressures and icy darkness - means that some of its most famous inhabitants have survived for eons as evolutionary throwbacks, their bodies undergoing little change.

稳定的海底环境─包括能把人压扁的压力和冰冷的黑暗─意谓海底某些最知名的栖居生物已以演化返祖的样态活了万世，形体几无变化。