美语情景对话 第685期:Bad Jobs 不好的工作

Tim: So, Jeff, you asked me about what kind of job I'd like. Well, what about a job you definitely you wouldn't want to do. There's lots of jobs out there and some of them aren't so good, so what would you not want to do?

蒂姆：杰夫，你之前问过我我喜欢哪种工作。现在我们来谈谈你绝对不想做的工作。工作种类很多，其中有一些不是那么好，你不想做哪种工作？

Jeff: That's a difficult question. I don't like working period, really.

杰夫：这是个难以回答的问题。我不太喜欢工作时间。

Tim: Yeah, but who does?

蒂姆：谁会喜欢呢？

Jeff: Yes, that's right, but I think a type of job I wouldn't like to do would be an office job, a straight desk job, where it is just task work, where you get paper — maybe sort of like an accountant — where you are doing nothing but sitting at your desk sort of by yourself all day, crunching numbers or putting things into the computer. I think it's very anti-social, a little bit boring, not so healthy, and even if the pay was good, I still wouldn't want to do it because you're compromising your life, which is short, to something that's not so fun so maybe a desk job, something at a desk, I wouldn't like to do. How about you? What job would you not like to do?

杰夫：没错，我不喜欢的工作是那种办公室工作，我不喜欢在办公桌工作，不喜欢做那种任务工作，面对一堆文件，比如说会计，一整天就只是坐在办公桌前，自己处理数据，或是把数据输入电脑。我认为这种工作非常反社会，而且有点无聊，也不健康，即使工资不错，我也不想做这种工作，因为这是在浪费生命，所以像这种有点无聊的工作或者说是办公桌工作是我不想去做的。你呢？你不想做哪种工作？

Tim: Well, to be honest with you I don't think I would make a very good police officer. I really wouldn't want to be a police officer. I know it's exciting and it's always different but I kind of feel like I would be judging people and I'm not anti-police. I think they're needed but sometimes I don't agree with everything that a government believes in and I think it would be difficult for me to be busting people for somethings that I don't agree with. And I think that, you know, it's a hard job. It's a hard job and you've got to deal with people that you know need help in different ways, and a police officer is just coming and putting them in jail.

蒂姆：说实话，我认为我不可能成为优秀的警察。我不太想当警察。我知道这个工作很刺激，而且与众不同，不过我会认为这种工作是在评判别人，不过我并不是反警察。我认为警察是很必要的，不过我不是完全认同政府的一切决定，我认为对我来说因为某件事去搜捕某人很难，我不同意这种做法。我觉得这是一项很难的工作。因为要和不同的人打交道，有些人可能也会需要一些帮助，可是警察只是把他们关进监狱。

Jeff: Another thing, sort of related to police officer is I wouldn't want to be a nurse or a doctor.

杰夫：说到警察，我想我不想当护理人员或医生。

Tim: Oh, I'm surprised.

蒂姆：哦，这让我很惊讶。

Jeff: A great job and it would be rewarding to save people's lives or to make them better if they're sick, to make them healthy again, but I hate blood.

杰夫：这是伟大的工作，而且可以挽救人们的生命，让人们更健康，帮助生病的人重获健康，可是我讨厌血。

Tim: Oh, really.

蒂姆：哦，真的吗？

Jeff: I can't stand blood so if there is... I can't even stand somebody with a bloody nose so I think in a situation where there is any blood around I wouldn't be your man.

杰夫：我真的不能忍受血……我甚至不能和流鼻血的人站在一起，所以我不能在会出现血的环境中工作。

Tim: Well, I think another job I wouldn't want to be is a garbage man, to be honest with you.

蒂姆：嗯，说实话，另一个我不想做的工作是清洁工。

Jeff: Oh, a garbage man would be great.

杰夫：哦，清洁工还不错啊。

Tim: I understand. Like, I like the idea of driving from house to house. I think I would be a great post office worker, and I don't mind the manual labor of just lifting stuff up and stuff.

蒂姆：我知道。我喜欢从一家开车去另一家这种方式。不过我想我可能想成为邮局工作人员，我不介意做搬东西这种体力劳动。

Jeff: A bit smelly though.

杰夫：会有点臭。

Tim: Yeah. That's the biggest thing. I think the smell would really get to me, like kind of like you were with blood. I think that eventually that smell would sometimes make me sick, and you'd be surprised what people people throw away. I mean, needles, all kinds of things, dirty diapers. Things like that. I don't think I could deal with that very well.

蒂姆：对。这是最大的问题。我真的受不了臭味，就像你受不了血一样。我想那种臭味会让我想吐，你可能会对人们扔了什么垃圾感到惊讶。可能会有各种东西，比如面条，脏尿布这种东西。我想我不能应对这些。

Jeff: OK, so you'll never be a garbage man and I'll never be a nurse.

杰夫：好，你永远不会做清洁工，而我也永远不会做护理人员。

Tim: Ah, Fair enough I suppose.

蒂姆：我觉得这很对。

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重点讲解：
1. agree with 同意；赞成；意见一致；
例句：I don't agree with all you say, but I'll let it go at that.
我并不完全同意你说的话，但我不再多说了。
2. deal with 处理；应付；与…打交道；
例句：Be careful in dealing with such people.
与这种人打交道要小心谨慎。
3. throw away 扔掉，丢掉（废弃物）；
例句：Don't forget to throw away your trash.
不要忘记把垃圾丢掉。
4. all kinds of 各种类型的；五花八门的；
例句：He is passionately addicted to all kinds of sports.
他酷爱各种体育活动。
5. fair enough 有道理；说得对；敢情好；
例句：'The message was addressed to me and I don't see why I should show it to you.' — 'Fair enough.'
“这条信息是写给我的，我不明白为什么要给你看。”——“说得在理。”