Even so, by July 2022, local friers were finding it harder and harder to balance their books.

即便如此，到2022年7月，当地鱼薯条商发现越来越难实现收支平衡。

As the price of gas and electricity threatened to double, then triple, through 2022, friers were opening their energy bills with gritted teeth.

到2022年，天然气和电力的价格翻一番，然后再翻两倍，油商贩正咬着牙打开他们的源账单。

An experienced frier will tend their bubbling fillets compulsively, using a metal strainer to turn and tease the food as the batter flares and hardens, basting with twitches of the wrist.

经验丰富的油师傅忍不住处理冒着泡的鱼片，在面糊突然变硬之际，他用金属滤网转、分离食物，扭手浇上卤汁。

By now I'd spent enough time in the East Neuk to notice that whenever friers complained about each other, there was one family – the Wyses of Pittenweem – they exempted from criticism.

到目前为止，我在东纽克待了足够久了。我注意到，每当油师傅互相抱怨时，总有一个家庭--佩恩斯维尔的怀斯一家--不受到批评。

In every corner of the country there are friers who fret about their nearest rivals, hourly remaking the same dish until they are tweaking it minutely, improving the batter-cling, the chip-give, vying to be thought of as number one.

在这个国家的每一个角落，都有为他们最接近的竞争对手而烦恼的油师傅，他们每小时都在重新制作同样的菜肴，直到精密地调整菜肴，提高面糊黏性、薯条量，争相成为顾客心中的第一。