美語情景對話 第231期:First Job 第一份工作

字號:

Todd: Lois, what was your first job?
    托德:洛伊斯,你第一份工作是什么?
    Lois: The first job I had was a sales assistant in a shoe shop.
    洛伊斯:我的第一份工作是在一家鞋店做銷售助理。
    Todd: Oh, shoes.
    托德:哦,鞋。
    Lois: Shoe shop, yeah! When I was fifteen, I got my first job and I used to work every Saturday for maybe 8 hours a day and I used to earn, 1 pound 77 pence per hour.
    洛伊斯:鞋店,對!那時我15歲,我得到了第一份工作,我每周六工作八個小時,當時的工資是每小時1.77英鎊。
    Todd: It doesn't sound like very much.
    托德:聽上去掙得不多。
    Lois: No, so in England now, the minimum I think is maybe 5 pounds.
    洛伊斯:的確是,現(xiàn)在英格蘭的最低工資大概是每小時5英鎊。
    Todd: Oh, wow!
    托德:哦,哇!
    Lois: So by the time I'd got the bus to Bournemouth,the town, and bought my breakfast at Mcdonald's, and then gone out for lunch and then got the bus home, I had no money left, but at the time cause I got paid at the end of the month, I always thought I had money, because suddenly all this money would appear in my bank account, but then I would have already spent it all, within the day of work.
    洛伊斯:那時我要坐公交去伯恩茅斯鎮(zhèn),在麥當勞買早餐吃,中午去餐廳吃飯,然后下班坐公交車回家,我?guī)缀醮娌幌率裁村X,不過因為我是在月末拿工資,我總覺得我有錢,原因是這些錢會突然出現(xiàn)在我的銀行帳戶上,可是之后我就會在上班的期間把它們都花完。
    Todd: Wow. So how long did you last at this job?
    托德:哇。你這份工作做了多長時間?
    Lois: I worked all together I think in three different shoe shops, so the first one I worked in for a year and then that one closed down, so then they moved me to another one, the same company, and then from that one I moved to another one , but then I had to leave my job when I had to do my exams at school cause I needed to study.
    洛伊斯:我想我一共在三家鞋店做過,第一家店我干了大概一年,后來那家鞋店倒閉了,于是他們把我調去了同一個公司的另一家店,然后我又去了第三家店,不過后來我不得不辭職,因為我要準備學校的考試,我要學習。