美語情景對話 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：傑夫，你之前問過我我喜歡哪種工作。現在我們來談談你絕對不想做的工作。工作種類很多，其中有一些不是那麼好，你不想做哪種工作？

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

傑夫：這是個難以回答的問題。我不太喜歡工作時間。

Tim: Yeah, but who does?

蒂姆：誰會喜歡呢？

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?

傑夫：沒錯，我不喜歡的工作是那種辦公室工作，我不喜歡在辦公桌工作，不喜歡做那種任務工作，面對一堆文件，比如說會計，一整天就只是坐在辦公桌前，自己處理數據，或是把數據輸入電腦。我認爲這種工作非常反社會，而且有點無聊，也不健康，即使工資不錯，我也不想做這種工作，因爲這是在浪費生命，所以像這種有點無聊的工作或者說是辦公桌工作是我不想去做的。你呢？你不想做哪種工作？

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：說實話，我認爲我不可能成爲優秀的警察。我不太想當警察。我知道這個工作很刺激，而且與衆不同，不過我會認爲這種工作是在評判別人，不過我並不是反警察。我認爲警察是很必要的，不過我不是完全認同政府的一切決定，我認爲對我來說因爲某件事去搜捕某人很難，我不同意這種做法。我覺得這是一項很難的工作。因爲要和不同的人打交道，有些人可能也會需要一些幫助，可是警察只是把他們關進監獄。

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

傑夫：說到警察，我想我不想當護理人員或醫生。

Tim: Oh, I'm surprised.

蒂姆：哦，這讓我很驚訝。

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.

傑夫：這是偉大的工作，而且可以挽救人們的生命，讓人們更健康，幫助生病的人重獲健康，可是我討厭血。

Tim: Oh, really.

蒂姆：哦，真的嗎？

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.

傑夫：我真的不能忍受血……我甚至不能和流鼻血的人站在一起，所以我不能在會出現血的環境中工作。

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

蒂姆：嗯，說實話，另一個我不想做的工作是清潔工。

Jeff: Oh, a garbage man would be great.

傑夫：哦，清潔工還不錯啊。

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。我喜歡從一家開車去另一家這種方式。不過我想我可能想成爲郵局工作人員，我不介意做搬東西這種體力勞動。

Jeff: A bit smelly though.

傑夫：會有點臭。

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：對。這是最大的問題。我真的受不了臭味，就像你受不了血一樣。我想那種臭味會讓我想吐，你可能會對人們扔了什麼垃圾感到驚訝。可能會有各種東西，比如麪條，髒尿布這種東西。我想我不能應對這些。

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

傑夫：好，你永遠不會做清潔工，而我也永遠不會做護理人員。

Tim: Ah, Fair enough I suppose.

蒂姆：我覺得這很對。

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重點講解：
1. agree with 同意；贊成；意見一致；
例句：I don't agree with all you say, but I'll let it go at that.
我並不完全同意你說的話，但我不再多說了。
2. deal with 處理；應付；與…打交道；
例句：Be careful in dealing with such people.
與這種人打交道要小心謹慎。
3. throw away 扔掉，丟掉（廢棄物）；
例句：Don't forget to throw away your trash.
不要忘記把垃圾丟掉。
4. all kinds of 各種類型的；五花八門的；
例句：He is passionately addicted to all kinds of sports.
他酷愛各種體育活動。
5. fair enough 有道理；說得對；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.'
“這條信息是寫給我的，我不明白爲什麼要給你看。”——“說得在理。”