實戰(zhàn)口語情景對話：The Perfect Schedule 完美的日程

Rory: So I was thinking about my current job.

羅瑞：我想談?wù)勎椰F(xiàn)在的工作。

Abidemi: Uh-hmm.

阿比德米：嗯。

Rory: And I think like my work schedule is so good.

羅瑞：我認(rèn)為我的工作安排很不錯。

Abidemi: Yeah.

阿比德米：嗯。

Rory: I work Monday and Tuesday, then I have a day off. Then I work Thursday and Friday, and then I have the weekend off. And I get five months holiday, yeah.

羅瑞：我周一和周二上班。然后周三休息一天。周四和周五上班，周末休息。另外我還有五個月的假期。

Abidemi: Wow. Sign me up.

阿比德米：哇哦。算我一個吧。

Rory: So I mean, what's a good work schedule for you?

羅瑞：你認(rèn)為什么是好的工作安排?

Abidemi: I think what you've just described sounds really good as well. When I was younger actually, I don't know where this idea came from but my ideal work hours were 9:00 until 2:00.

阿比德米：我認(rèn)為你剛剛描述的聽起來非常不錯。我年輕時認(rèn)為理想的工作時間是早上9點到下午2點，不過我也不知道這個想法從何而來。

Rory: Okay.

羅瑞：好。

Abidemi: Not 9:00 until 5:00 like you usually hear in a lot of Western countries, but 9 o'clock to 2 o'clock.

阿比德米：現(xiàn)在許多西方國家的工作時間都是朝九晚五，不是早上9點到下午2點。

Rory: Right.

羅瑞：好。

Abidemi: I don't know. So maybe for me, if I could do it, if I could find something like that, it would be really good because you can sleep in until maybe 7:00 or 8:00, go to work, finish at 2:00, still come back and have a good chunk of that day to do other things. So...

阿比德米：我也不知道。也許對我來說，如果我能找到這樣的工作，那就太好了，可以睡懶覺，睡到早上七八點，然后去上班，下午2點下班以后還有很多時間，可以做其他事情。

Rory: Yeah. So my previous job was quite – I started at 9:30 and I finish at 12:30. I worked five days a week but it was great because work was finished by lunch time. I had the whole day free. And that was a good job.

羅瑞：嗯。我上一份工作是早上9點半上班，中午12點半下班，一周工作五天，那非常棒，午飯時間工作就結(jié)束了。剩下的時間都是空閑時間。那是份很不錯的工作。

Abidemi: And you still got a full time salary?

阿比德米：拿全職薪水?

Rory: And that was a full-time salary, yeah.

羅瑞：對，全職薪水。

Abidemi: Wow. Sounds even better than this one, maybe.

阿比德米：哇哦。聽起來比你現(xiàn)在的工作還要好。

Rory: Yeah. In the past – I mean, I've worked in restaurants where you work only in the evenings. So I'd start at 5:30 and work until around midnight. I didn't like that as much because all day, I was thinking, "I've got to go to work later." So I think I prefer working in the morning and get it behind me as soon as possible.

羅瑞：嗯。我之前晚上在餐廳工作過。工作時間是晚上5點半到午夜。我不太喜歡那份工作，因為一整天我都在想“我一會兒要去上班”。我更喜歡在上午工作，盡快把工作完成。

Abidemi: I think maybe I'm the same way as well. I prefer to get it down and then have the rest of the day to enjoy. Also, I had a job where I was working during the weekend. And I would have Mondays and Tuesdays off. And I didn't really like that. I missed seeing friends on the weekend and then going out. So I don't think I would like anything like that. How about not working? Do you think – how long do you think you could go without not having to work?

阿比德米：我想我和你一樣。我也喜歡盡快搞定工作，然后剩下的時間享受時光。我還做過一份周末上班，周一和周二休息的工作。我不太喜歡那份工作。因為我周末不能和朋友見面，不能和朋友出去玩。所以我不喜歡那樣的工作。不工作呢?你認(rèn)為不工作你能堅持多長時間?

Rory: Well, it's funny because this job now I have really long vacations but I'm not happy when I'm not working. Like my wife gets very frustrated with me because if I have nothing to do, I tend to be a bit annoying around the house, just getting depressed, just arguing all the time. But I don't need much work. Like if I could just do like an hour a day, I think that would be enough to make me happy.

羅瑞：嗯，這很有趣，因為我現(xiàn)在這份工作有很長的假期，不過我不工作的時候并不開心。我妻子對我很失望，因為我沒什么事做、呆在家里的時候會有些煩人，我會很消沉，一直爭論個不停。不過我不需要太多工作。我想一天工作1個小時就能讓我開心起來。

Abidemi: Okay. How long could you go would say? A week or two without having to touch work?

阿比德米：好。那你不工作能堅持多長時間?完全不碰工作的話，你能堅持一周還是兩周?

Rory: I could probably go a couple of months.

羅瑞：我可能可以堅持幾個月。

Abidemi: Okay. Without having to work at all.

阿比德米：好。完全不工作。

Rory: Yeah, if I have other things to do, you know.

羅瑞：對，如果有其他事情做的話。

Abidemi: All right.

阿比德米：好。

Rory: So if I had other projects like if I was doing a lot of training for running or if I was studying, if I had a good book then I could probably go quite a long time.

羅瑞：如果有其他事情做，比如做大量的跑步訓(xùn)練，或是學(xué)習(xí)，讀一本好書，那我可以堅持很長時間。

Abidemi: Yeah. I get pretty restless myself, too. I think after three, four days of not having anything to do, I just want – I really need something. Maybe, like you said study or learn or go out and do something, have a project, have a goal. I think, yeah, my personality type needs to constantly do something, produce. Yeah.

阿比德米：好。我也會變得焦躁不安。如果什么都不做，那三四天以后我就會想做些事情。也許就像你說的那樣，學(xué)習(xí)或是外出，做個項目，制定個目標(biāo)。我想我的個性決定我要不斷地做事。

Rory: Yeah. When I worked in Europe, I used to do – I used to teach for one or two weeks intensively, and then have three or four weeks off. And it was quite nice because I had lots of free time but after two or three weeks of free time, I was quite looking forward to the next block, the next block of teaching. But teaching these intensive blocks can be quite – it can be quite tough as well. Like I have to – I did a six-week block in Russia once, and after three weeks, I just wanted to go home. Six weeks was too long.

羅瑞：嗯。我在歐洲工作時，曾做過一兩周左右的集中教學(xué)工作，然后我會休息三四周的時間。我認(rèn)為那非常不錯，因為有很多空閑時間，不過在休息兩三周以后，我就會非常希望進(jìn)行下一個教學(xué)工作。不過集中教學(xué)非常難。我曾在俄羅斯做過為期六周的集中教學(xué)，三周之后我就想回家了。六周的時間太長了。

Abidemi: Wow. I see. How intensive was it?

阿比德米：哇哦。我明白了。強(qiáng)度有多大?

Rory: Well, the job in Russia was really intensive because I was living with the students in a residential university. And so we had breakfast together and then I taught them from half past eight in the morning until half past six in the evening.

羅瑞：嗯，俄羅斯的工作強(qiáng)度很大，因為我要和學(xué)生們一起住在一所提供住宿的大學(xué)。我們一起吃早餐，然后早上8點半開始上課，晚上6點半下課。

Abidemi: Wow.

阿比德米：哇哦。

Rory: We had lunch together, and then we had dinner together in the evening.

羅瑞：我們一起吃午餐，晚上也一起吃晚餐。

Abidemi: Wow.

阿比德米：哇哦。

Rory: And there was one bar in the university, and we all went to the same bar in the evening as well.

羅瑞：大學(xué)里有一家酒吧，我們晚上也會去那個酒吧放松。

Abidemi: And you had the same group of students?

阿比德米：是和同一批學(xué)生嗎?

Rory: The same group of students.

羅瑞：對，和同一撥學(xué)生。

Abidemi: For six weeks?

阿比德米：六周的時間?

Rory: For six weeks and it was six days a week of teaching.

羅瑞：對，我要進(jìn)行六周的教學(xué)。

Abidemi: Wow. I can – if you the teacher felt like that, I can only imagine how the students must have felt. They must have wanted a break badly.

阿比德米：哇哦。你是老師，如果連你都想休息，那我可以想象學(xué)生一定也有這種感覺。他們一定非常想休息。

Rory: Yeah. We all wanted a break.

羅瑞：對。我們都想休息。