English Conversations about JOBS and WORK | Easy English 210 · Easy English
本集通过真实人物访谈,介绍不同职业的工作内容和感受,适合练习英语口语中的职业相关表达和日常对话。
Hi everybody welcome to a new episode of Easy English so currently as you can probably tell
大家好,欢迎来到《Easy English》的新一期节目。从目前的情况来看(你们应该也能看出来……)
I'm not in Brighton, I'm actually in
我不在布莱顿,实际上我是在……
Munster but before we left we made a video in Brighton asking what the people of Brighton do for work.
在离开芒斯特之前,我们在布莱顿拍摄了一个视频,询问当地居民都是从事什么工作的。
I wanted to know how people fell into working the jobs they do now and what they do and don't like about their jobs.
我想了解人们是如何开始从事现在这份工作的,以及他们对这份工作有哪些喜欢和不喜欢的地方。
If this episode is something that you
如果你觉得这一集特别有趣或值得观看的话……
would like to speak about in English
我想用英语来谈论这个话题。
and practice speaking about then wait until the middle of the episode to find out more about our conversation calls.
先练习如何谈论这些话题,然后等到节目进行到一半时再了解更多关于我们通话的内容。
This is what people do for work.
这就是人们工作时所做的事情。
Here we go.
我们开始吧。
Can you tell me what you do for work?
你能告诉我你是做什么工作的吗?
I'm currently I'm a music teacher in Barcelona.
我目前是巴塞罗那的一名音乐教师。
I work in an international school teaching in English and yeah primary and secondary.
我在一所国际学校工作,教授英语课程,涉及小学和中学阶段的学生。
Okay I used to be a teacher but I retired in July.
好吧,我曾经是一名教师,但我在七月份退休了。
I'm a postee I work for Royal Mail so I work part -time doing that four days a week.
我是一名邮递员,为英国皇家邮政(Royal Mail)工作,因此我采用兼职形式,每周工作四天。
What do you do for a job?
你是做什么工作的?
So I work in a special education needs school in Lansing with children and young people with communication needs,
我在兰辛市的一所特殊教育学校工作,负责帮助那些在沟通方面存在困难的儿童和青少年。
behavioural needs and we just yeah my role is pastoral and safeguarding so just trying to work with them educate them.
他们的行为方面存在一些问题(即他们的“行为需求”需要得到关注)。我的职责主要是提供心理支持与保护服务,因此我会尽力与他们合作,帮助他们接受教育。
Well okay that's a mouthful.
好吧,这个说法确实有点拗口(或者说很难记住)。
Do you have like a job like a specific job title?
你有一份具体的工作吗?也就是说,你的工作有一个明确的职位名称吗?
Yes so I have five.
是的,我有五个。
What do you do for work?
你是做什么工作的?
My name is Schurz and I work
我的名字是舒尔茨,我在这里工作。
as a ramp employee at Scripple Airport and I am a turnaround coordinator and I coordinate the turnaround process of an aircraft.
我在斯克里普尔机场(Scripple Airport)担任停机坪维护(ramp maintenance)方面的工作人员,同时兼任飞机周转协调员(turnaround coordinator)的职责,负责统筹飞机的周转流程。
I am an underwriter for an insurance company.
我是一家保险公司的核保员。
What do you do for a job?
你是做什么工作的?
So I work at a catering company
我在一家餐饮公司工作。
where I basically just serve like food and drinks at like weddings and corporate events sometimes like wakes and stuff but it's like mostly weddings.
我的工作主要是为婚礼、企业活动(有时也包括葬礼等场合)提供餐饮服务,不过主要还是婚礼。
I used to teach business studies and economics to kids from 11 to 19.
我过去经常教授11至19岁之间的青少年商业学和经济学课程。
So pastoral assistance so the way that pastoral works in our school is basically students that struggle to be in the classroom
因此,我们需要提供牧养性的帮助(即心理上的支持)。在我们学校,牧养工作的具体实施方式是:帮助那些在课堂上难以集中注意力、学习困难的学生。
will deliver interventions to support them.
我们将提供相应的干预措施来帮助他们。
So it depends on the intervention really
所以,这实际上取决于所采取的干预措施。
so it could be as little as
因此,所需的时间可能少至……
an hour a week to help a
每周花一小时时间来帮助某人……
student tie their shoelaces or it could
学生们需要系好自己的鞋带,否则可能会有麻烦(或:鞋带松开会导致摔倒等危险)。
be full time because they can't quite
他们只能选择全职工作,因为他们没办法做到其他安排(或:他们没有足够的时间或资源来选择其他工作方式)。
manage the classroom set in yet but
教室的管理规则还没有完全确定下来……
we do a lot of work to get them into that place so that they can go into a classroom.
我们付出了很多努力,才让他们能够进入学校、进入教室接受教育。
I just graduated from school.
我刚刚从学校毕业。
I did hotel management because in the
我选择学习酒店管理,是因为……
future maybe I want to have to own a hotel so I thought maybe this is a good start to begin with.
也许将来我想要拥有一家酒店,所以我觉得从现在开始着手准备是个不错的开始。