实战口语情景对话 第1275期:Have you ever worked for minimum wage? 你有拿过最低工资吗?

Mike: Hey, this is Mike from Singapore.
迈克：嗨，我是迈克，来自新加坡。

MJ: And this is MJ from Korea.
MJ：我是MJ，来自韩国。

Mike: OK, MJ, we are gonna talk about wages. Have you ever worked for minimum wage?
迈克：好，MJ，我们来谈谈工资。你有做过领最低工资的工作吗？

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：实际上我没有真正工作过，所以我没有挣过钱。我不知道最低工资的标准，我也没拿过最低工资。

Mike: So you don't work, you don't get minimum wage.
迈克：所以，你没有工作，没领过最低工资。

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.
迈克：我想一下，我上高中时在一家清洁公司工作，我被派去一家购物中心打扫厕所。

MJ: Toilet cleaner?!
MJ：洁厕员？

Mike: Yeah, I worked as a cleaning...or or, let's call it floor supervisor. I prefer that word.
迈克：对，我负责打扫……或者我们称之为楼层主管。我更喜欢这个说法。

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.
迈克：我不确定那个工作拿的是否是最低工资，不过当时我认为薪水还不错。我每小时的薪资是6美元或7美元。6美元1小时。但是你要知道这是很久以前的事情，大概是10年以前。所以我认为那份工作的薪水很不错。

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：不过那可能是最低工资，因为那是辛苦的工作。就辛勤的工作来说，那很可能是最低工资。

Mike: Well, you are right. I could've been paid...
迈克：你说得对。我可能拿的是最低工资。