實(shí)戰(zhàn)口語情景對話：Odd Job 奇怪的工作

Todd: OK, Jeff, we're talking about odd jobs. Good jobs, bad jobs, strange jobs we've done. What's an odd job you've had Jeff?

托德：杰夫，我們來談?wù)劰ぷ?。我們做過好的工作、壞的工作，還有一些奇怪的工作。杰夫，你做過什么奇怪的工作?

Jeff: Todd, one of my oddest odd jobs might be was when I was backpacking through Europe after university, I ran out of money in Israel and there's an organization called a Kibutz, where it's communal living and you can do a job and they give you your room and board. They they don't pay you in money but they give you food and lodging and a good experience of living with the Israelis so I worked on a fish pond. A fish pond. And it means raising fish, growing fish that they are going to sell in the supermarket. And so what that entails was I got up in the morning and we fed the fish. You has a machine that put fish food, fish pellets into the lake, into the fish pond and then you'd have to clean up the fish pond, and you'd have to make some calls to the markets, to the supermarkets and find out who wanted what, when they needed it and make sure that your system, your fish could be ready when they needed it and it was beautiful because it was working with nature sort of out in the Israeli countryside and it was sunny and warm everyday. You were working with other good quality guys, so it was good. It was an interesting job, very odd, odd job, and it was a good experience as well.

杰夫：托德，我大學(xué)畢業(yè)后進(jìn)行背包穿越歐洲之旅時(shí)做的那份工作應(yīng)該是我做過最奇怪的工作之一，我在以色列的時(shí)候用光了身上的錢，有個(gè)組織名為基布茲，那是一種集體社區(qū)，你在那里工作的話，他們會給你提供房間和食物。他們不會付你工資，但是會為你提供食物和住宿，還可以體驗(yàn)和和以色列人一起生活，我當(dāng)時(shí)在一個(gè)魚塘工作。主要工作是喂養(yǎng)要拿到超市去賣的魚。早上起床以后就要去喂魚。那里有一個(gè)機(jī)器用來把魚食放進(jìn)湖里和魚塘里，喂完魚后要清理魚塘，給市場和超市打電話，確定他們的需求以及他們何時(shí)需要這些魚，確保你能按時(shí)把魚交給他們，這份工作很不錯(cuò)，因?yàn)槲沂窃谝陨械慕紖^(qū)工作，可以接觸到自然美景，每天都是陽光明媚、溫暖的好天氣。而且還可以和其他優(yōu)秀的人一起工作，所以這份工作很好。這既是一份有意思的工作，又是一份奇怪的工作，當(dāng)然也是一份很好的經(jīng)驗(yàn)。