真实生活英语Unit2:Employment and Job Services 就业和工作

Part Three: Substitution Drills

1. A: Can I help you?
  B: Yes, do you have any (full-time/ part-time/ temporary) work available?
我能为您做些什么？
是的，你们招（全职/兼职/短期工）吗？
2. A: What do you do?
  B: I work full-time at the (hospital/ library/ supemp3arket).
你是做什么的？
我在（医院/图书馆/超市）做全职。

3. A: How many hours a week are you hoping to work?
  B: I work about (forty/ twenty-five/ forty-five) hours a week.
你希望一个星期工作多少个小时？
一星期大概工作（40/ 25/45）个小时。

4. A: Do you know anything about this temp-agency?
  B: I’ve heard they’re very (helpful/ reputable/ well-connected).
你了解这个短期工中介公司吗？
我听说（很有用/声誉很好/社会联系广泛）。

5. A: How many (hours/ reports/ meetings) a week does the job entail?
  B: Usually about twelve.
这项工作需要一个星期（工作多少个小时/写多少报告/开多少次会）？
通常大约12个（次）。

6. A: I’ve been there for about (four months/ six days/ three years).
  B: That’s nice.
我在那儿已有大约（4个月/ 6天/ 3年）。
不错。

7. A: I’ve been thinking about doing some temp work.
  B: This agency had lots of (work/ assignments/ infomp3ation*) for me.
我一直想做一些短期工。
这家中介公司有很多（工作/任务/信息）提供给我。

8. A: How busy is your schedule?
  B: I work (six days/ five days/ sixty hours) a week.
你的工作忙吗？
我一星期工作（6天/ 5天/ 60个小时）。

9. A: Ted volunteers for the children’s hospital once a month.
  B: Gee, what a nice/ kind/ wamp3-hearted guy!
特德每个月义务为儿童医院工作一次。
哇，他可真是个（好/好/热心的）小伙子。

10. A: What do you do there?
    B: I (file paperwork/ enter data into the computer/ take orders from customers).
你在那儿做什么？
我（负责资料存档/进行数据输入/接收客户订单）。

Part Four: Monologue
“When I was a student I was broke*, so I took a part-time job to help support myself. I needed something that wouldn’t interfere with my class schedule. I found a job at the local supemp3arket working twenty hours a week in the evenings. Mostly I took inventory and stocked the shelves. The work itself wasn’t so interesting and it was hard for me to find the time to study. It was good for me though; I got some practical working experience and I learned a lot about how to manage my time. And plus, money. I mean, hey, who can complain about that?”                                                                                         
--Cristoph Burleson
我读书的时候真是穷得叮当响，因此我做一份兼职工作赚钱养活自己。我需要一份不与我的课程安排相冲突的工作。在当地的超市我找到了一份工作，每个星期在晚上干20个小时。工作主要是编列存货清单，填充货架。工作本身不太有趣，而且自己也挤不出时间来学习。但还是有好处的，我获得了一些实际的工作经验。而且还学会了更好地分配自己的时间。而且，我还能赚钱。我的意思是，我可没有什么抱怨的。                                                                                          
--克里斯多夫．伯利森

Part Five: Vocabulary and Phrases
-- full-time 全职
-- part-time 兼职
-- temporary  临时的；暂时的
-- pemp3anent  固定性的；常在的
-- agency 中介；代理
-- volunteer 自愿参加者，志愿者，义工
-- register  自动登录机，收银机
--inventory存货清单；存货盘存
--entail  必需；使承担
-- experience 经验，体验
--* temp - abbreviation for temporary
--* way too - slang, same as “much too”
This is too expensive < This is much too/ way too expensive.
--* “Infomp3ation” does not take “s” as a plural: never “lots of infomp3ations”.
--* broke - slang, have no money