美语情景对话 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。

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重点讲解：
1. go door to door
挨家挨户；
例句：On that night, children dress up and go door to door asking for treats or playing tricks.
在那天晚上，装扮好了的孩子们会挨家挨户地敲门，他们向主人要求款待，要不就会捣蛋。
2. knock on
敲；击；
例句：I duly knocked on his door at three o'clock.
我准时在三点钟敲了他的门。
3. the more
句型；常表示“越……就越……”；
例句：The higher we climbed, the more awe-inspiring the scenery became.
我们爬得越高，风景越是让人叹绝。
4. get sick of
厌倦的；厌烦的；厌恶的；
例句： I get sick of hearing that music all the time.
我对整天听那音乐感到厌烦。