There is a distinctive(独特的，与众不同的) smell of cow manure in the air at the Duke of Westminster’s dairy farm near Chester. It is a world away from(与…截然不同，远离…) the collection of grand West End properties controlled by the duke that form the backbone(支柱，骨干；脊柱) of his near £10bn fortune, a decade on from(在…十年之后) becoming Britain’s youngest billionaire.
在切斯特附近的威斯敏斯特公爵奶牛场，空气中弥漫着一股独特的牛粪味。这里与公爵控制的伦敦西区那些宏伟房产截然不同，那些房产构成了他近100亿英镑财富的支柱，而十年前他成为了英国最年轻的亿万富翁。
As part of his 349-year-old Grosvenor empire(格罗夫纳家族地产帝国), Lea Manor Farm on the duke’s Eaton Estate in north-west England has fare(进展，经营；过活)d better than most dairy farms in recent years.
作为他拥有349年历史的格罗夫纳帝国的一部分，位于英格兰西北部公爵伊顿庄园的Lea Manor农场近年来比大多数奶牛场经营得更好。
But it has also been hit by declining milk prices and other challenges faced by British farmers. A series of heatwaves causing drought, with a fifth looming(逼近的，即将来临的) this week – combined with fertiliser shortages triggered by the Iran war, diseases and a scarcity(稀缺，不足) of workers since Brexit – have made farming very difficult.
但它也受到了牛奶价格下跌和英国农民面临的其他挑战的打击。一系列热浪导致干旱，本周第五次热浪即将来临——再加上伊朗战争引发的化肥短缺、疾病以及英国脱欧以来工人短缺——使得农业变得非常困难。