真實生活英語Unit2:Employment and Job Services 就業和工作

Unit 2 Employment and Job Services
就 業 和 工 作

Part One: Expressions

1. I work full-time at the University hospital.
我在大學醫務室全職工作。
2. I had a part-time job waiting tables when I was in college.
我讀大學的時候做過兼職的服務生。
3. Is the job full-time or part-time?
這個工作是全職還是兼職？
4. How many hours a week does the job require?
這個工作要求一星期工作多少個小時？
5. I’m doing some temporary work to make money until I find a more pemp3anent job.
在我找到一個固定職業以前，我一直在打臨時工賺錢。
6. Do you know of a good temp*-agency?
你知道有什麼好的短期工中介嗎？
7. This agency had lots of work for me.
這個中介公司有很多工作提供給我。
8. I work there one night a week for the extra income.
我在那兒一週工作一個晚上賺外快。
9. I volunteer for this organization two weekends a month.
我義務爲這個組織每個月工作兩個週末。
10. I’d like to do some volunteering in my free time.
我想在我的空閒時間做一些義工。

Part Two: Dialogues
1. Full-time and Part-time Jobs 全職和兼職工作
A: Did you have a part-time job when you were still in school?
B: No, I was way too*busy studying all the time. How about you?
A: Yeah, I worked about twenty hours a week in a pizza restaurant.
B: What was that like?
A: It was always very busy there.
B: What did you do?
A: I stood behind the register and took pizza orders.
B: Did you get any perks on the job?
A: Yeah, I got to eat as much pizza as I could for free.
A: 你讀書期間有沒有兼職工作的經驗？
B: 沒有，我總是忙着學習，你呢？
A: 有過。我在一個比薩餅店每週工作20個小時。
B: 工作怎麼樣？
A: 那兒總是很忙。
B: 你在那兒負責做什麼呢？
A: 我站在收銀臺後面接單。
B: 你的工作還有沒有什麼好處？
A: 有，我可以免費任意吃比薩餅。

2. Temporary and Casual Work 短期工

A: Have you found a new job yet?
B: No, not yet. I’m still looking. I’ve been doing some work through a temp-agency though.
A: What kind of work?
B: I’m temping at a phamp3aceutical company.
A: What do you do there?
B: Mostly office work - filing and so on.
A: How long is the assignment?
B: Till the end of the month.
A: 你找到新工作了嗎？
B: 沒有，還沒有找到。我還在找。但是我通過一家中介公司介紹在做短期工。
A: 那是什麼樣的工作？
B: 是一家制藥公司的短期工。
A: 你在那兒做什麼事？
B: 大多是辦公室裏的事情--存檔之類的。
A: 做到什麼時候呢？
B: 到這個月底。

3. Voluntary work 義工

A: Want to meet for lunch this Saturday?
B: Sorry, I can’t. I’m busy.
A: What are you doing?
B: I always do volunteer work on the first Saturday of every month.
A: What kind of volunteer work?
B: I help out at the children’s hospital. I help plan activities.
A: Oh, yeah?
B: Yeah. It’s exciting. This month we’re doing crossword puzzles.
A: 這個星期六一起吃午飯嗎？
B: 對不起，不行。我很忙。
A: 你在做什麼？
B: 我每個月的第一個星期六總是要做義工。
A: 是什麼性質的義工？
B: 在兒童醫院幫手。幫忙組織活動。
A: 哦，是嗎？
B: 是呀，很令人興奮。這個月我們要做字謎遊戲。

Part Three: Substitution Drills

1. A: Can I help you?
B: Yes, do you have any (full-time/ part-time/ temporary) work available?
我能爲您做些什麼？
是的，你們招（全職/兼職/短期工）嗎？
2. A: What do you do?
B: I work full-time at the (hospital/ library/ supemp3arket).
你是做什麼的？
我在（醫院/圖書館/超市）做全職。

3. A: How many hours a week are you hoping to work?
B: I work about (forty/ twenty-five/ forty-five) hours a week.
你希望一個星期工作多少個小時？
一星期大概工作（40/ 25/45）個小時。

4. A: Do you know anything about this temp-agency?
B: I’ve heard they’re very (helpful/ reputable/ well-connected).
你瞭解這個短期工中介公司嗎？
我聽說（很有用/聲譽很好/社會聯繫廣泛）。

5. A: How many (hours/ reports/ meetings) a week does the job entail?
B: Usually about twelve.
這項工作需要一個星期（工作多少個小時/寫多少報告/開多少次會）？
通常大約12個（次）。

6. A: I’ve been there for about (four months/ six days/ three years).
B: That’s nice.
我在那兒已有大約（4個月/ 6天/ 3年）。
不錯。

7. A: I’ve been thinking about doing some temp work.
B: This agency had lots of (work/ assignments/ infomp3ation*) for me.
我一直想做一些短期工。
這家中介公司有很多（工作/任務/信息）提供給我。

8. A: How busy is your schedule?
B: I work (six days/ five days/ sixty hours) a week.
你的工作忙嗎？
我一星期工作（6天/ 5天/ 60個小時）。

9. A: Ted volunteers for the children’s hospital once a month.
B: Gee, what a nice/ kind/ wamp3-hearted guy!
特德每個月義務爲兒童醫院工作一次。
哇，他可真是個（好/好/熱心的）小夥子。

10. A: What do you do there?
B: I (file paperwork/ enter data into the computer/ take orders from customers).
你在那兒做什麼？
我（負責資料存檔/進行數據輸入/接收客戶訂單）。

Part Four: Monologue
“When I was a student I was broke*, so I took a part-time job to help support myself. I needed something that wouldn’t interfere with my class schedule. I found a job at the local supemp3arket working twenty hours a week in the evenings. Mostly I took inventory and stocked the shelves. The work itself wasn’t so interesting and it was hard for me to find the time to study. It was good for me though; I got some practical working experience and I learned a lot about how to manage my time. And plus, money. I mean, hey, who can complain about that?”
--Cristoph Burleson
我讀書的時候真是窮得叮噹響，因此我做一份兼職工作賺錢養活自己。我需要一份不與我的課程安排相沖突的工作。在當地的超市我找到了一份工作，每個星期在晚上幹20個小時。工作主要是編列存貨清單，填充貨架。工作本身不太有趣，而且自己也擠不出時間來學習。但還是有好處的，我獲得了一些實際的工作經驗。而且還學會了更好地分配自己的時間。而且，我還能賺錢。我的意思是，我可沒有什麼抱怨的。
--克里斯多夫•伯利森

Part Five: Vocabulary and Phrases
-- full-time 全職
-- part-time 兼職
-- temporary 臨時的；暫時的
-- pemp3anent 固定性的；常在的
-- agency 中介；代理
-- volunteer 自願參加者，志願者，義工
-- register 自動登錄機，收銀機
--inventory存貨清單；存貨盤存
--entail 必需；使承擔
-- experience 經驗，體驗
--* temp - abbreviation for temporary
--* way too - slang, same as “much too”
This is too expensive < This is much too/ way too expensive.
--* “Infomp3ation” does not take “s” as a plural: never “lots of infomp3ations”.
--* broke - slang, have no money