邁克:嗨,我是邁克,來自新加坡。
MJ: And this is MJ from Korea.
MJ:我是MJ,來自韓國。
Mike: OK, MJ, we are gonna talk about wages. Have you ever worked for minimum wage?
邁克:好,MJ,我們來談談工資。你有做過領最低工資的工作嗎?
MJ: Actually I haven't really worked, so I didn't earn any money. So, I don't know the definition of the minimum wage and also I didn't get the minimum wage.
MJ:實際上我沒有真正工作過,所以我沒有掙過錢。我不知道最低工資的標準,我也沒拿過最低工資。
Mike: So you don't work, you don't get minimum wage.
邁克:所以,你沒有工作,沒領過最低工資。
MJ: How about you?
MJ:你呢?
Mike: Let's see...Well, I think in high school, I actually worked for a cleaning company, and I was assigned to a shopping mall as a toilet cleaner.
邁克:我想一下,我上高中時在一家清潔公司工作,我被派去一家購物中心打掃廁所。
MJ: Toilet cleaner?!
MJ:潔廁員?
Mike: Yeah, I worked as a cleaning...or or, let's call it floor supervisor. I prefer that word.
邁克:對,我負責打掃……或者我們稱之為樓層主管。我更喜歡這個說法。
MJ: OK.
MJ:好。
Mike: And, so I'm not sure if that was minimum wage, but I thought I...I thought the pay was pretty good. I got about six dollars or seven dollars per hour. Six dollars per hour. But remember this was way back like...probably a decade ago. So I thought it was a pretty good pay.
邁克:我不確定那個工作拿的是否是最低工資,不過當時我認為薪水還不錯。我每小時的薪資是6美元或7美元。6美元1小時。但是你要知道這是很久以前的事情,大概是10年以前。所以我認為那份工作的薪水很不錯。
MJ: But it could be minimum wage, because it was a hard work. Compare to a hard work and that money, it could be.
MJ:不過那可能是最低工資,因為那是辛苦的工作。就辛勤的工作來說,那很可能是最低工資。
Mike: Well, you are right. I could've been paid...
邁克:你說得對。我可能拿的是最低工資。