美語情景對話 第884期:The Economy for Europeans 歐洲的經濟

Alex: So Maria, you've seen a lot of the stuff that's been happening recently in Europe and you know that things have not exactly gone very well. What do you think are the, what's the outlook for Denmark in the future? Do you think you guys will do well or...?

亞歷克斯：瑪麗亞，你很瞭解最近歐洲發生的情況，你知道形勢不太好。你認爲丹麥的未來前景怎麼樣？你認爲你們會做好嗎？

Maria: I don't think we'll do that well because I'm from a generation where we, like my generation, we had it very well. We had a very good, we could choose whatever job we wanted, we could still choose whatever education we wanted if we're smart enough at least. We get paid from the Government to study. I get a lot of money every month. I still do even though I am on exchange just to study so compared to other countries where it is a privilege to study, we just, if we feel like it we'll study and we might wait a little but now they're saying that we're this luxury generation, that we're not used to working hard and I can recognize that because I'm not used to working for anything.

瑪麗亞：我覺得我們的情況不會太好，因爲我們這一代人過得太好了。我們可以選擇我們想從事的工作，如果我們足夠聰明，我們還能選擇教育。政府提供我們學習的費用。我每個月能得到一大筆錢。在做交換學生的時候我依然能拿到錢，與其他優先發展教育的國家相比，我們認爲我們只要學習的話就可以很快就業，但是現在他們說我們是奢侈的一代，我們沒有努力工作的習慣，我能意識到這點，因爲我沒有努力做事去得到某樣東西的習慣。

So when we begin to struggle finding jobs because we have like a high rate of unemployment, especially for young people, people who graduate usually they wait. If you don't have a very specific education, doctors I think are OK, people like that, but if you have a humanistic education, you might have to wait more than a year to find a job. My sister's graduating now and she is like dying because she has a fear for that. When she graduates with her social European studies, she will have a very hard time finding anything. So I think the biggest problem is the personality of the Danish youth because we are not used to having to do anything and now we have to because the environment has changed in Europe.

我們找工作遇到了困難，因爲我們國家的失業率非常高，尤其對年輕人來說，他們畢業後都要等待一段時間。如果沒有接受專業教育，醫生還好，但是如果接受的是人文教育，那你可能就要一年以後才能找到工作。我姐姐馬上就要畢業了，她現在非常着急，而且也很擔心。她學的是歐洲社會研究，這個專業很難找到工作。我認爲丹麥年輕一代最大的問題是性格，因爲我們不習慣做事，而現在我們必須要做，因爲歐洲環境的改變了。

I don't know economically because we still have a lot of like huge enterprises and we have a lot of, the way we're placed we have pretty good connections with America and we're in Europe. We have like the whole of Europe around us and of course we, as a part of Scandinavia, we have good connections with like we have some more than just connections with Sweden and Norway, we are like, I don't know, closer than we would have been for example Germany which actually Denmark is situated on Germany so we have the link to Germany but we're still closer to Sweden. So we will probably manage but we will have to change economically and this might be a problem that we're getting a socialist government at the moment. I think it's great because I love it that we have it this way but we might get in economic trouble, difficulties, so I am probably going to have a harder time than my parents. It's got to work, it's going to help that I'm studying business though because I can always just work in another country, Australia for example, but yeah I don't know, the future is vague.

我不太知道經濟上的問題，不過我們國家有很多大型企業，而且我們是歐洲國家，同美國關係良好。我們還有歐洲的支持，地處斯堪的納維亞半島，我們不僅僅同瑞典和挪威關係良好，我們同德國的關係也越來越好，，丹麥位於德國北部，同德國接壤，當然我們與瑞典的關係也很好。所以我們也許可以處理我們面臨的問題，但是我們也必須要在經濟上做出改變，這可能會成爲問題，目前我們國家是社會主義政府執政，我認爲這很棒，我喜歡我們國家處理問題的方式，不過我們可能也會遇到經濟問題和困境，與我父母那一代相比，我可能會經歷更困難的時期。我正在學習商業，我認爲這會有助於解決問題，我可以在澳大利亞等其他國家工作，不過我也不清楚，未來很模糊。

Alex: Yeah.

亞歷克斯：是啊。

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重點講解：
1. at least 至少，起碼；
例句：She may be slow but at least she's reliable.
她遲鈍是遲鈍，但無論如何她很可靠。
2. even though 即使；儘管；縱然；
例句：He is still under his mother's thumb, even though he is nearly 30.
他雖然快30歲了，但仍然受着母親的管束。
3. compared to 與…相比；和…比起來；
例句：Compared to the other powers, this is the least effective.
相比其他能力，這個能力是最沒效能的。
4. be used to doing sth. 習慣於；
例句：The old man and his wife have been used to living a simple life.
這對老夫婦已經過慣了簡樸的生活。