美语情景对话 第231期:First Job 第一份工作
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销售助理。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，对！那时我15岁，我得到了第一份工作，我每周六工作八个小时，当时的工资是每小时1.77英镑。Todd: It doesn't sound like very much.
托德：听上去挣得不多。Lois: No, so in England now, the minimum I think is maybe 5 pounds.
洛伊斯：的确是，现在英格兰的最低工资大概是每小时5英镑。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：那时我要坐公交去伯恩茅斯镇，在麦当劳买早餐吃，中午去餐厅吃饭，然后下班坐公交车回家，我几乎存不下什么钱，不过因为我是在月末拿工资，我总觉得我有钱，原因是这些钱会突然出现在我的银行帐户上，可是之后我就会在上班的期间把它们都花完。Todd: Wow. So how long did you last at this job?
托德：哇。你这份工作做了多长时间？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过，第一家店我干了大概一年，后来那家鞋店倒闭了，于是他们把我调去了同一个公司的另一家店，然后我又去了第三家店，不过后来我不得不辞职，因为我要准备学校的考试，我要学习。
重点讲解：
1. get paid
得到报酬；领工资；付酬劳；支付工资；
eg. I'm heavily in debt at the moment, but hope to be out of debt when I get paid.
我现在负债累累，但希望拿到工资后就能把债务还清。
eg. He got paid a piffling sum after weeks of work.
他工作数周所得甚微。
eg. When they work, they usually get paid in money.
人们工作的报酬也通常用货币来支付。
2. close down
（工厂、商店、学校等）永久性关闭；（使）停业；（使）倒闭；
eg. Minford closed down the business and went into politics.
明福德弃商从政了。
eg. Many of the smaller stores have closed down.
很多规模稍小的店铺已经倒闭了。
eg. The company had decide to close down its three branch in europe.
该公司已决定关闭它在欧洲的三个分公司。
