实战口语情景对话 第549期: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，你在美国长大，你上高中的时候有没有打过工？

Greg: Oh, I've had part-time jobs ever since I was a child.
格雷格：哦，我从小就一直在打工。

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国种子公司工作。你知道这家公司吗？

Todd: I can imagine. No. I mean it's just a seed company, right.
托德：我可以想象。我想那就是一家种子公司。

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：对，是的。实际上他们并不付我工钱。他们会给我鲜花种子还有蔬菜种子，然后我要拿着这些种子挨家挨户去推销，我会去敲人们的房门，然后说：“打扰一下，我是美国种子公司的员工，您想买些种子吗？”当时人们看到的是一个九、十岁左右的男孩努力地卖种子，你知道通常他们都会买几包种子，举个例子，如果我卖了20包种子，那我就可以从玩具清单中选择我喜欢的玩具，像足球或是飞镖盘之类的，所以我卖了很多种子，我喜欢这份工作。

Todd: How old were you?
托德：那时你多大？

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：我大概九岁或十岁。（真的吗）你知道圣诞节的时候美国的传统是把槲寄生放在屋顶，所以圣诞节的时候我会爬到树上去剪槲寄生，然后挨家挨户去问：“您想买槲寄生吗？”

Todd: You were quite the entrepreneur. The young businessman. (Yes) Did you make a lot of money with that job?
托德：你太有商业头脑了。年轻的企业家。（嗯）那份工作挣到了很多钱吗？

Greg: For me it felt like a lot of money at that time.
格雷格：当时对我来说那是很大一笔钱了。

Todd: Right, well, I got to ask, did you ever work at a fast-food company, like McDonalds or Wendy's?
托德：好，我想问，你在麦当劳或是温蒂汉堡这样的快餐公司打过工吗？

Greg: I've never worked at a fast-food company.
格雷格：我从来没在快餐公司打过工。

Todd: Oh, I did. It's the worst job ever. It's terrible.
托德：哦，我干过。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：你可以免费吃快餐吧？

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：对，可以，这是那份工作最诱人的地方，我就不说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连锁店工作过，当时我想我可以吃到所有的汉堡了。

Greg: You probably got sick of eating hamburgers.
格雷格：你可能会吃腻汉堡的。

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：你开玩笑吧，当时我15岁，我并不认为汉堡越多越好，之后我丢掉了那份工作，因为他们发现我谎报了年龄所以他们开除了我，当时我好像13岁还是14岁，我只是想要一份工作。你有送过报纸吗？

Greg: Yes. Yes. For a couple of years I delivered newspapers in the morning.
格雷格：有，送过。有几年的时间，我每天早上都去送报纸。

Todd: Right. How early did you have to get up to deliver the papers?
托德：好。你送报纸的时候几点起床？

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：我记不清了，大约6点左右吧。（好）。我做这份工作有点令人吃惊，因为我讨厌早起。

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。在天气不好的时候，比如下雨天还要送报纸的时候，这份工作非常糟糕。我也送过报纸，下雨天的时候真的很糟。你要套着大塑料袋去送报纸，那并不是一份有意思的工作。

Greg: Yeah, and sometimes dogs chase you.
格雷格：对，而且有时还会有狗追你。