Scots have contributed world-changing inventions related to bicycle tires, penicillin, television.

苏格兰人的发明曾为改变世界做出过杰出贡献，从自行车胎到青霉素再到电。

Scots are somewhat less resistant to immigration than other Britons.

牛津大学的移民观察站的一份报告称，某种程度上苏格兰人没有英国其他地区那般排斥移民。

Scots is one of Scotland's three remaining indigenous languages, along with Gaelic and English.

苏格兰语是苏格兰现存的三种土著语言之一，还有盖尔语和英语。

Scots retained Old English words that southern English lost, such as " bannock" .

苏格兰人保留了古英语中一些南部英语中没有的词，比如“bannock”。

Scots have a tendency to say, aye, right. No, I'm not listening.

苏格兰人倾向于说，好，好的。不，我不要听。

He said, if Scots vote yes, quote, we will go our separate ways forever.

他表示，如果苏格兰人投赞成票，那我们将永远分道扬镳。

Scots, who voted overwhelmingly to stay in the EU - some of them felt very betrayed by this.

苏格兰人以压倒性多数票支持留在欧盟，他们中有些人因为脱欧而感觉受到了背叛。

That is what I'm telling you Great scot!

这就是我要告诉你的 伟大的苏格兰人！

Scots descends from Northumbrian, one of the dialects of Old English; standard southern English descends from a dialect farther south.

苏格兰语来自诺森伯兰，诺森伯兰古英语的一种方言；标准的南方英语源于更南方的一种方言。

Or, if there's more than one, they're Scots.

或者，如果不止一个， 他们就是苏格兰人。

Scots heading to the polls deciding whether they should separate from England, leave the United Kingdom and become an independent state.

苏格兰人去参加公投，决定苏格兰是否从英国独立，离开英国，成为独立的国家。

Now this is a Scots word from the Scots language, not Scottish English. Don't confuse it with Scottish English. No Scots.

这是一个来自苏格兰语的苏格兰单词，不是苏格兰英语。不要把它和苏格兰英语混淆了。不是苏格兰语。

When the rain clears, sun-starved Scots enjoy their esplanade and the beach brings joy to young families.

雨停后，渴望阳光的苏格兰人享受他们的滨海大道，海滩为年轻家庭带来欢乐。

" Others commit heaven knows what crimes, and they go scot free, while I must suffer for nothing" .

“别人天知道有什么罪， 他们逍遥法外， 我却要白受罪” 。

The War Office in London now forbade pipers to play in battle, but Mr Millin and Lord Lovat, as Scots, plotted rebellion.

伦敦陆军部当时禁止风笛手在战斗中吹奏，但同为苏格兰人的米林先生和洛瓦特勋爵密谋不受陆军部禁令约束。

One by one, the abandoned Scots began to die. Babies passed away in their mothers' arms. Elderly women died, wracked with malaria.

被抛弃的苏格兰人开始一个接一个地死去，婴儿死在母亲的怀里，老年妇女死于疟疾。

By winter, investment in Poyais bonds had generated over a billion pounds in today's money. And MacGregor was still selling land to gullible Scots!

到了冬天，对波亚斯债券的投资已产生了相当于今天的10亿英镑的收益，而此时麦格雷格尔还在把土地卖给那些轻信于人的苏格兰人！

Scottish pubs can be lively, friendly places, but alcohol has come to play a central role in the lives of too many Scots.

苏格兰的酒吧可以是热闹、友好的地方，但酒精已成为太多苏格兰人生活中的核心角色。

Yes. I have heard Scots being spoken and even for me, it was pretty difficult to understand, so I think that's why people call it a different language.

对。我听过有人说苏格兰语，即使对我来说，那也很难理解，我想这就是人们称之为苏格兰语的原因。

An English judge had said so after the Scots' great defeat at Culloden in 1746; a piper was a fighter like the rest, and his music was his weapon.

1746年英格兰人取得卡洛登大捷后，一位英国法官裁定风笛是战争乐器；风笛吹奏者像其他士兵一样，也是战士，他奏出的乐曲就是他的武器。