实战口语情景对话 第884期:The Economy for Europeans 欧洲的经济

Alex: So Maria, you've seen a lot of the stuff that's been happening recently in Europe and you know that things have not exactly gone very well. What do you think are the, what's the outlook for Denmark in the future? Do you think you guys will do well or...?
亚历克斯：玛丽亚，你很了解最近欧洲发生的情况，你知道形势不太好。你认为丹麦的未来前景怎么样？你认为你们会做好吗？

Maria: I don't think we'll do that well because I'm from a generation where we, like my generation, we had it very well. We had a very good, we could choose whatever job we wanted, we could still choose whatever education we wanted if we're smart enough at least. We get paid from the Government to study. I get a lot of money every month. I still do even though I am on exchange just to study so compared to other countries where it is a privilege to study, we just, if we feel like it we'll study and we might wait a little but now they're saying that we're this luxury generation, that we're not used to working hard and I can recognize that because I'm not used to working for anything.
玛丽亚：我觉得我们的情况不会太好，因为我们这一代人过得太好了。我们可以选择我们想从事的工作，如果我们足够聪明，我们还能选择教育。政府提供我们学习的费用。我每个月能得到一大笔钱。在做交换学生的时候我依然能拿到钱，与其他优先发展教育的国家相比，我们认为我们只要学习的话就可以很快就业，但是现在他们说我们是奢侈的一代，我们没有努力工作的习惯，我能意识到这点，因为我没有努力做事去得到某样东西的习惯。

So when we begin to struggle finding jobs because we have like a high rate of unemployment, especially for young people, people who graduate usually they wait. If you don't have a very specific education, doctors I think are OK, people like that, but if you have a humanistic education, you might have to wait more than a year to find a job. My sister's graduating now and she is like dying because she has a fear for that. When she graduates with her social European studies, she will have a very hard time finding anything. So I think the biggest problem is the personality of the Danish youth because we are not used to having to do anything and now we have to because the environment has changed in Europe.
我们找工作遇到了困难，因为我们国家的失业率非常高，尤其对年轻人来说，他们毕业后都要等待一段时间。如果没有接受专业教育，医生还好，但是如果接受的是人文教育，那你可能就要一年以后才能找到工作。我姐姐马上就要毕业了，她现在非常着急，而且也很担心。她学的是欧洲社会研究，这个专业很难找到工作。我认为丹麦年轻一代最大的问题是性格，因为我们不习惯做事，而现在我们必须要做，因为欧洲环境的改变了。

I don't know economically because we still have a lot of like huge enterprises and we have a lot of, the way we're placed we have pretty good connections with America and we're in Europe. We have like the whole of Europe around us and of course we, as a part of Scandinavia, we have good connections with like we have some more than just connections with Sweden and Norway, we are like, I don't know, closer than we would have been for example Germany which actually Denmark is situated on Germany so we have the link to Germany but we're still closer to Sweden. So we will probably manage but we will have to change economically and this might be a problem that we're getting a socialist government at the moment. I think it's great because I love it that we have it this way but we might get in economic trouble, difficulties, so I am probably going to have a harder time than my parents. It's got to work, it's going to help that I'm studying business though because I can always just work in another country, Australia for example, but yeah I don't know, the future is vague.
我不太知道经济上的问题，不过我们国家有很多大型企业，而且我们是欧洲国家，同美国关系良好。我们还有欧洲的支持，地处斯堪的纳维亚半岛，我们不仅仅同瑞典和挪威关系良好，我们同德国的关系也越来越好，，丹麦位于德国北部，同德国接壤，当然我们与瑞典的关系也很好。所以我们也许可以处理我们面临的问题，但是我们也必须要在经济上做出改变，这可能会成为问题，目前我们国家是社会主义政府执政，我认为这很棒，我喜欢我们国家处理问题的方式，不过我们可能也会遇到经济问题和困境，与我父母那一代相比，我可能会经历更困难的时期。我正在学习商业，我认为这会有助于解决问题，我可以在澳大利亚等其他国家工作，不过我也不清楚，未来很模糊。

Alex: Yeah.
亚历克斯：是啊。