《中英對照讀新聞》Swedes paid 410 million for drugs,sex in 2004 瑞典人2004年支付四億一千萬美元在毒品和色情上

Swedes spent 2.9 billion Swedish crowns（$410.4 million）on illicit drugs and prostitutes in 2004, the country's statistics office（SCB）estimated. It said the calculations were “experimental” and “based on a very uncertain ground”.

瑞典人在二○○四年花了二十九億瑞典克郎（四億一千零四十萬美元）在非法的毒品和娼妓上，該國統計局（SCB）估計。該局說，此一估算乃是「實驗性質」，是「建立在非常不確定的根據上」。

Despite some of the toughest laws in Europe, Sweden's nine million people spent 2.3 billion crowns for illegal drugs while alcohol smuggling added an estimated 1.7 billion crowns to the economy. The SCB put spending on prostitutes at 0.6 billion crowns.

儘管有全歐洲最嚴格的法律之一，瑞典的九百萬人民花費二十三億克郎買違法毒品，估計在走私酒類上的花費則對經濟貢獻了十七億克郎。統計局將花在娼妓上的錢估算為六千萬克郎。

To estimate how much Swedes spend on drugs, the SCB had to find out the street value of the drugs and their import price.The data was then tallied with data on how many hard drug users there are in the country. To estimate the spending on prostitutes, the SCB got a sample of prices from the internet and then tried to work out how many clients a prostitute sees each day.

為估算瑞典人花多少錢在毒品上，統計局必須得知毒品市價和進口價格。這些資料接著和國內有多少烈性毒品使用者核算。為了估算在娼妓上的花費，統計局從網路上取得價格樣本，然後設法算出一名娼妓每天會接多少客人。

Dictionary-新聞辭典

illicit：不被許可的，非法的。illicit 和 illegal 都有「非法」的意思，不過illegal指「不合於法律」或「違反法律」，illicit 則可以泛指一切不見容於法律或公序良俗的事物，如 illicit love affairs指偷情。

prostitute：娼妓

tally：核算

hard drug：烈性毒品

drugs一般指藥物，但也可指毒品，吸毒者或嗑藥者是drug user，藥頭是 drug dealer。hard drug 指較易上癮的毒品，如海洛因等。

work out：算出

work out有「想出」（work out a solution）、「算出」（work out the total fees）、「解決」（work out the difficulties）等意思，相似的字有workout，是名詞，指「健身」。