美語情景對話 第1300期:What is the worst job you have had? 你做過的最糟糕的工作是什麼?

Paul: Hi, this is Paul from South Korea.

保羅：嗨，我是保羅，來自韓國。

Hanna: And I'm Hanna from Australia.

漢娜：我是漢娜，來自澳大利亞。

Paul: So Hanna have you ever had the worst experience working?

保羅：漢娜，你有最糟糕的工作經歷嗎？

Hanna: A really bad experience working? Yes, actually. I had a three day job once. I was a telemarketer, and for those people who haven't heard of that kind of job before, basically, you ring up a lot of people at dinner time, and try to sell them something, and hassle them, so yeah, after three days, I quit because I couldn't stand ringing people up anymore.

漢娜：非常糟糕的工作經歷？實際上我有。之前有一份工作我只做了三天。那份工作是電話銷售員，我來給那些沒聽過這種工作的人解釋一下，基本上來說，電話銷售員就是在晚飯期間給很多人打電話，試圖向他們銷售東西，去打擾他們，三天之後我就不幹了，因爲我再也無法忍受不停給別人打電話這種工作了。

Paul: That sounds awful.

保羅：那聽起來很糟糕。

Hanna: Yeah, it was horrible.

漢娜：對，很可怕。

Paul: My worst? I wouldn't say the worst, but I was once a cleaner. I was in the dormitory and I had to wake up at six in the morning to clean up and pick up all the trash on the floor. It was sooooo ... it was a nightmare. At six in the morning.

保羅：我最糟糕的工作經歷呢？我不會說那是最糟糕的，我以前做過清潔員。當時我住在集體宿舍，我每天早上6點就要起牀，然後開始打掃，並清理地板上的垃圾。那太……那簡直是惡夢。早上6點就得起牀。

Hanna: That's pretty early.

漢娜：那真是太早了。

Paul: It is.

保羅：沒錯。

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重點講解：
1. ring up 給…打電話；
例句：You can ring us up anytime.
你隨時都可以給我們打電話。
2. wake up 醒；醒來；
例句：They found that, on average, people wake up in a good mood, which falls away over the course of the day.
他們發現，通常情況下，人們起牀時都有好心情，但隨着一天的行進，好心情逐漸殆盡。
3. clean up 打掃；清掃；把…弄乾淨；
例句：The children help clean up the kitchen.
孩子們幫忙打掃廚房。
4. pick up 拿起；提起；拾起；撿起；
例句：They depend on the goodwill of visitors to pick up rubbish.
他們相信遊客會自覺撿起垃圾。