炸鱼薯条向来是英国人最爱的一道菜，但随着海洋被过度捕捞，鱼越来越贵了。
Fish and chips has always been a favourite dish in Britain, but as the oceans have been overfished, fish has become more and more expensive.
所以，得知巨型鱼正在北海石油钻井平台上吓坏潜水员，实在令人惊讶。
So it comes as a surprise to learn that giant fish are terrifying the divers on North Sea oil rigs.
石油钻井平台需要频繁维修，而潜水员——他们通常得在水下一百英尺的黑暗中工作——在工作时不断被巨型鱼撞上，吓得魂不附体。
Oil rigs have to be repaired frequently and divers, who often have to work in darkness a hundred feet under water, have been frightened out of their wits by giant fish bumping into them as they work.
现在他们已经让人制作了特制的笼子来保护自己免受这些怪物的侵害。
Now they have had special cages made to protect them from these monsters.
这些鱼不是鲨鱼或虎鲸，而是人们喜爱食用的品种，如鳕鱼和鳐鱼，它们长到了异常的体型，有时体长多达十二英尺。
The fish are not sharks or killer whales, but favourite eating varieties like cod and skate which grow to unnatural sizes, sometimes as much as twelve feet in length.
三个因素导致这些鱼长得如此巨大：海底热油管道周围的温水；平台上的船员向海中扔出的大量食物；以及石油钻井平台周围完全没有渔船。
Three factors have caused these fish to grow so large: the warm water round the hot oil pipes under the sea; the plentiful supply of food thrown overboard by the crews on the rigs; the total absence of fishing boats around the oil rigs.
结果，这些鱼就在那舒适的温水里不停地吃、不停地长。
As a result, the fish just eat and eat and grow and grow in the lovely warm water.
谁在吃谁？
Who eats who?