年薪1.4萬英鎊！白金漢宮招聘皇室浴缸總管

It is hardly a complex or onerous procedure, but Buckingham Palace has decided that running one’s own bath is not a task that members of the Royal Family and guests of the Queen should be burdened with.
雖然浴缸的使用過程實在算不上覆雜繁瑣，然而白金漢宮已經決定，不能勞煩皇室家族成員和女王陛下的貴賓親自動手。

The Royal Household is seeking to appoint a housekeeping assistant, one of whose jobs will be to put in the plug, turn on the tap and check the temperature of the water when the bath is full.
英國皇室正在招聘一名家政助理，此人的工作任務之一就是摁下浴缸塞，打開水龍頭，等到浴缸的水放滿時檢查水溫。

The successful candidate for the £14,200-a-year post will be ‘committed to achieving exceptional standards of service provision’.
該職位年薪爲1.42萬英鎊，而能夠成功獲得此職位的候選人必須“能夠滿足服務條款中的較高標準”。

As well as filling the royal bath, he or she will pack and unpack for guests of the Royal Household, iron their clothes, help them dress, look after their jewellery and arrange for tea and breakfast trays to be brought to their room.
除了給皇室浴缸放水，此名助理的工作還包括爲皇室成員收拾和安置行李，給他們熨燙衣服，協助他們穿衣，保管他們的珠寶首飾，以及準備茶點和早餐盤。

As the modest starting salary indicates, the job is near the bottom of the Palace hierarchy. But whoever fills the vacancy will rub shoulders with the Queen and Prince Philip.
不起眼的起薪說明這份工作在皇宮等級中地位較低。但不管是誰擔任此項職位，都將直接和女王以及菲利普親王打交道。

The job advertisement, which appears on the Royal Household website, says the post holder ‘will have contact with Members of the Royal Family, guests and all levels of Royal Household staff’.
英國皇室網站上的招聘廣告稱，應聘成功者“將會接觸到皇室成員、皇室貴賓以及各個等級的皇室內部員工”。

Although based at Buckingham Palace, whoever is hired will also work at other royal residences, such as Balmoral and Sandringham, for up to three months each year and play a role in hospitality for official banquets and private entertaining by the Royals.
雖然主要工作地點在白金漢宮，這名員工也會在其他的皇家宅邸工作，比如巴爾莫勒爾城堡和桑德林漢姆別墅。這樣的情況每年最多三個月，主要任務是在皇家舉辦的正式宴會和私人宴請中爲賓客服務。

The assistant’s main duty will be ‘high quality cleaning, presentation and guest care in the post holder’s designated area, consisting of the personal rooms of the Royal Family, their guests’ suites, State Apartments, cloakrooms, staff and office accommodation, staircases and corridors’.
這名助理的主要職責是“在指定區域完成高質量的清潔、佈置以及賓客服務，這些區域包括皇室家族的私人房間，賓客套房，國賓公寓，衣帽間，皇室職員住處，樓梯和走廊”。

The 40-hour-a-week job requires someone with a ‘friendly, polite and approachable disposition and an ability to be discrete and maintain confidentiality’.
這份每週工作時長40小時的工作要求應聘者“親切友好、彬彬有禮、平易近人，而且能夠保守祕密”。

In 2003, there was an outcry over Royal extravagance after it was revealed that Prince Charles had a favourite servant who squeezed the toothpaste tube for him before he cleaned his teeth.
2003年，查爾斯王子被曝出每次刷牙前都由他最喜愛的傭人幫他擠牙膏，這引發了民衆對於皇室奢侈生活的強烈抗議。