實戰(zhàn)口語情景對話：Part-Time Job 打工

Todd: Hey, so, Greg, growing up in the states, did you have any part-time jobs like in high school and stuff?

托德：嗨，格雷格，你在美國長大，你上高中的時候有沒有打過工?

Greg: Oh, I've had part-time jobs ever since I was a child.

格雷格：哦，我從小就一直在打工。

Todd: Right, me too.

托德：我也是。

Greg: My first actually, I used to work for the American Seed Company. Do you know that?

格雷格：我打的第一份工是在美國種子公司工作。你知道這家公司嗎?

Todd: I can imagine. No. I mean it's just a seed company, right.

托德：我可以想象。我想那就是一家種子公司。

Greg: Yeah. Yeah. Well, I actually wasn't paid in money. They would send me flower seeds, and vegetable seeds and then I would go door-to-door, I would knock on people's doors, "Excuse me, I'm with the American Seed Company, would you like to buy some seeds?", and people would see this, I was probably ten or nine at the time, this young kid trying to sell seeds, and you know they would buy a couple packs, and if I sold, say twenty packs of seeds, then I could choose from a list of toys or things (Whoa) soccer ball, or a dart board, and so I sold a lot of seeds. I liked it.

格雷格：對，是的。實際上他們并不付我工錢。他們會給我鮮花種子還有蔬菜種子，然后我要拿著這些種子挨家挨戶去推銷，我會去敲人們的房門，然后說：“打擾一下，我是美國種子公司的員工，您想買些種子嗎?”當時人們看到的是一個九、十歲左右的男孩努力地賣種子，你知道通常他們都會買幾包種子，舉個例子，如果我賣了20包種子，那我就可以從玩具清單中選擇我喜歡的玩具，像足球或是飛鏢盤之類的，所以我賣了很多種子，我喜歡這份工作。

Todd: How old were you?

托德：那時你多大?

Greg: I was maybe nine or ten then. (Really) and another thing I would do, around Christmas time, you know America is the tradition of putting mistletoe up on the roof for Christmas, well I would climb trees, cut the mistletoe and then again I would walk door-to-door and say, "Would you like to buy some mistletoe?"

格雷格：我大概九歲或十歲。(真的嗎)你知道圣誕節(jié)的時候美國的傳統(tǒng)是把槲寄生放在屋頂，所以圣誕節(jié)的時候我會爬到樹上去剪槲寄生，然后挨家挨戶去問：“您想買槲寄生嗎?”

Todd: You were quite the entrepreneur. The young businessman. (Yes) Did you make a lot of money with that job?

托德：你太有商業(yè)頭腦了。年輕的企業(yè)家。(嗯)那份工作掙到了很多錢嗎?

Greg: For me it felt like a lot of money at that time.

格雷格：當時對我來說那是很大一筆錢了。

Todd: Right, well, I got to ask, did you ever work at a fast-food company, like McDonalds or Wendy's?

托德：好，我想問，你在麥當勞或是溫蒂漢堡這樣的快餐公司打過工嗎?

Greg: I've never worked at a fast-food company.

格雷格：我從來沒在快餐公司打過工。

Todd: Oh, I did. It's the worst job ever. It's terrible.

托德：哦，我干過。那是最糟糕的一份工作。非常糟糕。

Greg: Did you get to eat free food though?

格雷格：你可以免費吃快餐吧?

Todd: Ah, I did, actually, that was the big allure of the job, like I won't say the name of the company, but I worked for a major, major fast food chain around the world, and I thought, oh, I can eat all the hamburgers I want.

托德：對，可以，這是那份工作最誘人的地方，我就不說我打工的那家快餐店的名字了，我曾在世界上一家主要快餐連鎖店工作過，當時我想我可以吃到所有的漢堡了。

Greg: You probably got sick of eating hamburgers.

格雷格：你可能會吃膩漢堡的。

Todd: No, are you kidding, I was 15, I didn't care like the more hamburgers the better, and uh, then actually I lost the job because I lied about my age and they fired me, but yeah, I wanted a job, I was like 13 or 14 or something like that. So how about, did you ever do the paperboy job?

托德：你開玩笑吧，當時我15歲，我并不認為漢堡越多越好，之后我丟掉了那份工作，因為他們發(fā)現(xiàn)我謊報了年齡所以他們開除了我，當時我好像13歲還是14歲，我只是想要一份工作。你有送過報紙嗎?

Greg: Yes. Yes. For a couple of years I delivered newspapers in the morning.

格雷格：有，送過。有幾年的時間，我每天早上都去送報紙。

Todd: Right. How early did you have to get up to deliver the papers?

托德：好。你送報紙的時候幾點起床?

Greg: I don't remember, maybe around 6 o'clock. (Right) It's amazing I did that cause I hate waking up early now.

格雷格：我記不清了，大約6點左右吧。(好)。我做這份工作有點令人吃驚，因為我討厭早起。

Todd: Right, yeah, yeah. That job's the worst just cause of the weather, like you have to do it in the rain. I was the paperboy too, and in the rain, it's just awful. You have the big plastic bags and, and you're out there throwing the papers, and yeah, it's not a fun job.

托德：好，好的。在天氣不好的時候，比如下雨天還要送報紙的時候，這份工作非常糟糕。我也送過報紙，下雨天的時候真的很糟。你要套著大塑料袋去送報紙，那并不是一份有意思的工作。

Greg: Yeah, and sometimes dogs chase you.

格雷格：對，而且有時還會有狗追你。