美語情景對話 第684期:Cool Jobs 好工作

Jeff: Tim, I'm a teacher, but you can have many, many jobs in the world. If you could pick any job, what do you think would be a cool job?

傑夫：蒂姆，我是一名老師，而世界上有很多種工作。如果讓你選擇工作的話，你認爲什麼工作是好工作？

Tim: Well, to be honest, I think it would be pretty cool to be a fisherman.

蒂姆：說實話，我認爲漁民非常酷。

Jeff: Fisherman!

傑夫：漁民！

Tim: Yeah. Believe it or not I really like the ocean. I like spending time in the ocean and I think if you go out on those boats and get away from the land, you really get in touch with the sea and I just think that you get to work with your hands.

蒂姆：對。不管你信不信，我真的非常喜歡海洋。我喜歡在海洋上的時間，我認爲如果你乘船出海，遠離陸地，就可以和海洋接觸，用自己的雙手工作。

Jeff: Is it dangerous though?

傑夫：可是那樣是不是很危險？

Tim: Oh, it is dangerous. For sure. You can hook yourself. You can get caught in storms. It can be not so good.

蒂姆：嗯，的確是很危險。可能會鉤到自己，也可能會遇上暴風雨。可能會遇上不太好的事情。

Jeff: Do you get paid a lot of money?

傑夫：這份工作薪水高嗎？

Tim: Not so much, but that is not necessarily so important. You know. You can work with nature. You can catch your own food. Provide for yourself and I think that's really rewarding. How about you? What do you think would be a cool job?

蒂姆：不太高，不過這並不重要。因爲你是在自然中工作。而且是自己去捕食。過自給自足的生活，我認爲這非常值得。你呢？你認爲什麼工作是好工作？

Jeff: I think I would like to be a writer.

傑夫：我想當作家。

Tim: Why is that?

蒂姆：爲什麼？

Jeff: Because a movie star would be good, or a rock star but there is too much fame. Too many people always want to talk to you or want your autograph, but I think a writer, you are doing something you love without all that pressure or media coming after you and you can sort of make your own time and do it where you like. You can write in the country in a cabin or you can write in the city anywhere you like so I think it is a very flexible rewarding job.

傑夫：雖然當電影明星或者搖滾歌星也不錯，不過這種工作的名氣太大了。有許多人會談論你，或者是管你要簽名，而作家的話，我認爲是在既沒有壓力又沒有媒體追逐的情況下作自己喜歡的事情，而且可以自己安排工作的時間和地點。你可以在鄉村小屋寫作，也可以在城市裏任何你喜歡的地方寫作，所以我認爲這是份既靈活而且報酬又高的工作。

Tim: Yeah, you got to have the skill for it though. Do you think you have that skill?

蒂姆：是，不過這份工作需要技能。你覺得你有這種技能嗎？

Jeff: No, I'm a terrible writer, but if I could have my pick of jobs, I'd like to be a writer. How about you? You would like to be a fisherman. Any other jobs you would like to be?

傑夫：沒有，我的文筆很差，不過如果我能選擇的話，我希望當名作家。你呢？你想成爲漁民。你還有其他想做的工作嗎？

Tim: Another job that I think might be cool is a fireman to tell you the truth. Again, you kind of working with nature. I'd really like to be a sort of a slash and burn fireman. Someone that goes out where there's wildfires, things like that, cause you're working with nature.

蒂姆：說實話，我覺得消防員也是份很酷的工作。消防員也是在自然中工作。我真的很想成爲森林消防員。發生山火後，森林消防員就會去救火，他們也是在自然中工作的。

Jeff: Those guys, the slash-and-burn fireman, they get to jump out of helicopters sometimes.

傑夫：森林消防員有時要從直升飛機上降落下去。

Tim: Some of them do yeah, but that's kind of the glamorous one. Yeah, I wouldn't mind just being the guy that's on the ground, and the nice thing about it is you work really, really hard and you get paid pretty well for the time you work but then you get a long time off.

蒂姆：對，是會這樣，這也是種魅力。我不介意就在地面上工作，這份工作最好的地方在於，你認真工作會得到優渥的工資，而且還有很長的休息時間。

Jeff: But, I'm a little bit scared of fires. You don't mind fire?

傑夫：我有點怕火。你不怕火嗎？

Tim: I don't mind fire so much. You know. It's hot and it can be really, really dangerous but I don't know, it's kind of exciting and I like the idea of being out there in nature and just working hard to survive and working in a team. I think it would be good.

蒂姆：我不太害怕火。我知道工作環境很熱，而且非常危險，不過這也同樣令人興奮，我喜歡在自然中工作，喜歡那種努力工作努力生活的感覺，也喜歡在團隊中工作。我覺得這樣很好。

Jeff: I want to be an astronaut. I think an astronaut would be good.

傑夫：我想成爲宇航員。我覺得宇航員很棒。

Tim: Why is that? It's a dangerous job. A fireman's dangerous but it sounds like and astronaut would be pretty dangerous as well.

蒂姆：爲什麼？那很危險。消防員的工作雖然危險，但是聽起來宇航員這份工作也很危險。

Jeff: A little dangerous but I'd like to go to the moon to see what's on the moon. I think it would be kind of neat to be on the moon and looking back at the earth. They call the earth the blue planet. I think it would be neat to sit up there and look back on the earth and it would be kind of neat I think.

傑夫：是有點危險，不過我想去月球看看上面有什麼。我認爲在月球上回看地球這種感覺肯定非常好。他們稱地球爲藍色星球。我想坐在月球上回看地球一定很棒。

Tim: Sounds like you like the ocean. You should think about being a fisherman.

蒂姆：聽起來你喜歡海洋。你可以考慮一下成爲漁民。

Jeff: No way! No thanks.

傑夫：不好！不行，謝謝你。

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重點講解：
1. to be honest 老實說；說實在的；
例句：To be honest, I find it unsatisfactory.
說實話，我很不滿意。
2. believe it or not （強調剛纔所述之事令人吃驚）信不信由你；
例句：Believe it or not, that's the way it is.
信不信由你, 反正事情就是這樣。
3. get in touch with （與…）聯絡；（與…）聯繫；
例句：I asked her to get in touch with Henry as soon as possible.
我要求她儘快與亨利聯繫。
4. for sure 無疑；肯定；
例句：I cannot say for sure if it was your visual illusion.
我不能肯定這是不是你的視錯覺。
5. to tell you the truth 說實在的；坦白說；
例句：To tell you the truth, I'm sick of it.
跟你說實話，我不願意這樣。