首页
登录
职称英语
We live in southern California growing grapes, a first generation of vintners
We live in southern California growing grapes, a first generation of vintners
游客
2025-01-06
25
管理
问题
We live in southern California growing grapes, a first generation of vintners, our home adjacent to the vineyards and the winery, It’s a very pretty place, and in order to earn the money to realize our dream of making wine, we worked for many years in a business that demanded several household moves, an incredible amount of risk - taking and long absences from my husband. When it was time, we traded in our old life, cinched up our belts and began the creation of the winery.
We make small amounts of premium wine, and our lives are dictated by the rhythm of nature and the demands of the living vines. The vines start sprouting tiny green tendrils in March and April, and the baby grapes begin to form in miniature, so perfect that they can be dipped in gold to form jewelry. The grapes swell and ripen in early fall, and when their sugar content is at the right level, they are harvested carefully by hand and crushed in small lots. The wine is fermented and tended until it is ready to be bottled. The vineyards shed their leaves, the vines are pruned and made ready for the dormant months - and the next vintage. It sounds nice, doesn’t it? Living in the country, our days were spent in the ancient routine of the vineyard, knowing that the course of our lives as vintners was choreographed long ago and that if we practiced diligently, our wine would be good and we’d be successful. From the start we knew there was a price for the privilege of becoming a winemaking family, connected to the land and the caprices of nature.
We work hard at something we love, we are slow to panic over the daily emergencies, and we are nimble at solving problems as they arise. Some hazards to completing a successful vintage are expected: rain just before harvesting can cause mold; electricity unexpectedly interrupted during the cold fermentation of white wine can damage it; a delayed payment from a major client when the money is needed.
There are outside influences that disrupt production and take patience, good will and perseverance. [For example] the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms regulates every facet of the wine business. A winery’s records are audited as often as two or three times a year and every label - newly written for each year’s vintage - must be approved...
But the greatest threat to the winery, and one that almost made us lose heart, came out of a lawyer’s imagination. Our little winery was served notice that we were named in a lawsuit accusing us of endangering the public health by using lead foils on our bottles ( it was the only material used until recently) "without warning consumers of a possible risk." There it was, our winery’s name listed with the industry’s giants...
... I must have asked a hundred times: "Who gets the money if the lawsuit is successful?" The answer was, and I never was able to assimilate it, the plaintiffs and their lawyers who filed the suit! Since the lawsuit was brought in behalf of consumers, it seemed to me that consumers must get something if it was proved that a lead foil was dangerous to them. We were told one of the two consumer claimants was an employee of the firm filing the suit!
There are attorneys who focus their careers on lawsuits like this. It is an immense danger to the small businessman. Cash reserves can be used up in the blink of an eye when in the company of lawyers. As long as it’s possible for anyone to sue anybody for anything, we are all in danger. As long as the legal profession allows members to practice law dishonorably and lawyers are congratulated for winning big money in this way, we’ll all be plagued with a corruptible justice system. [br] The phrase "cinched up our belts," in the first paragraph, suggests that the couple ______.
选项
A、thought creating a winery would be easy.
B、wore clothing that was too big.
C、strapped their belongings together and moved
D、prepared for the difficult work ahead
答案
D
解析
cinch本意指“给马系上肚带”,这里用的是其比喻义,准做好准备。
转载请注明原文地址:https://tihaiku.com/zcyy/3901255.html
相关试题推荐
WeliveinsouthernCaliforniagrowinggrapes,afirstgenerationofvintners
WeliveinsouthernCaliforniagrowinggrapes,afirstgenerationofvintners
WeliveinsouthernCaliforniagrowinggrapes,afirstgenerationofvintners
Thegreatestlegacyofthebabyboomgeneration’searlyadulthoodhasbeenth
[originaltext]About200yearsago,theUnitedStateseconomywasgrowingqui
[originaltext]About200yearsago,theUnitedStateseconomywasgrowingqui
Growingconcernsoverthesafetyandefficacyofanti-depressantdrugsprescr
Growingconcernsoverthesafetyandefficacyofanti-depressantdrugsprescr
[originaltext]VoiceOne:OnehundredmilesofftheCaliforniacoast,anunderse
The70,000groceryworkersonstrikeinSouthernCaliforniaarethefrontlin
随机试题
Indiaistheworld’sbiggestgoldconsumer,butthecountry’spassionforth
法的指引作用可以分为确定的指引和有选择的指引。有选择的指引,是指法律规范对人们的
生成树协议中,阻塞状态到侦听状态需要()秒,侦听状态到学习状态需要(请作答此空)
仪器灵敏度是指单位输入信号所引起的仪器输出示值的变化,它与分辨力互为倒数。()
女性,45岁,间歇性发作咽下困难3个月,可因情绪波动诱发。食管造影未见异常。治疗
维持子宫前倾主要的韧带是A、子宫阔韧带 B、子宫圆韧带 C、子宫主韧带 D
( )的制定是为了规范建设工程监理与相关服务行为,提高建设工程监理与相关服务水平
确保所有的资产均能得到恰当的控制,以及所有的经济业务均能得以全面、完整和准确的记
()是企业生产控制的基础工作,是对生产过程中各工序原材料、半成品等所处位置、数量
对于建筑工程一切险的免赔额的确定,第三者责任险中财产损失的免赔额为每次事故赔偿
最新回复
(
0
)