美語情景對話 第491期:The Baker 麪包師

Todd: Now Alan, you used to be a baker.

託德：艾倫，你以前做過麪包師。

Alan: Yes I did.

艾倫：是的。

Todd: That's pretty cool. So you can make anything right, like bread, donuts, cake?

託德：那真酷。那你會做麪包、甜甜圈和蛋糕，對吧？

Alan: Yeah. My specialty, what I did a lot of was, different varieties of bread. I baked a lot of white bread, whole wheat bread, 60% whole wheat bread, rye bread, sour dough, Italian bread, French bread. So mostly I did breads.

艾倫：對，那是我的強項，我會做多種麪包。我會做白麪包、全麥麪包、全麥比例達到60%的麪包、黑麥麪包、酸麪包、意式麪包和法式麪包。基本上我主要負責做麪包。

Todd: Ok, sounds good. What is the routine of a baker? Do you have to get up early, or how does that work?

託德：聽起來不錯。那麪包師的作息是怎樣的？你是不是需要早起？你們是怎麼工作的？

Alan: Yes. Generally most bakeries, especially bakeries that sell bread, they start operations very early in the morning. With the bread, you want to get the bread out and fresh as early as possible. So bread bakers will start at 3am or 4am. They'll come in and open up the shop. They'll get everything going, fire up the ovens and start mixing the bread dough. So if the bakery opens at 8 in the morning, the customers come into fresh baked bread.

艾倫：對，通常大多數麪包師，尤其是那些還要賣麪包的麪包師，早上很早就要起牀準備。要確保新鮮的麪包儘早出爐。所以麪包師大概早上三四點就已經開始工作了。他們要把店門打開、啓動烤箱、做麪糰。8點麪包店一開門，顧客就能買到剛出爐的麪包了。

Todd: I love that smell. So what would you say was the best thing about being a baker?

託德：我喜歡那個味道。你認爲做麪包師最棒的事情是什麼？

Alan: The best thing about being a baker would be, making all those fancy pastries: Danish, croissants, apple strudel. I enjoyed that part of baking, making those kinds of products.

艾倫：做麪包師最棒的是能做各式各樣的甜點：丹麥酥、牛角包、蘋果卷等等。我很享受這種烘焙各種麪包的過程。

Todd: Was there anything that you did not like about being a baker?

託德：那有沒有你覺得不好的方面？

Alan: Pretty much everything else. Specifically, I didn't like the hours. Mostly the hours I didn't like. The actual work was not bad but it was the hours and the pay wasn't so good.

艾倫：幾乎各個方面都不太好。尤其是我不喜歡工作時間。主要來說我不喜歡麪包師的工作時間。其實這份工作並不差，但是工作時間和薪水不太好。

Todd: Ok well, still though you'd have to have loved that smell of fresh bread everyday.

託德：好，而且你每天都會聞到新鮮麪包的味道。

Alan: That I did enjoy yes.

艾倫：我很享受這種味道。

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重點講解：
1. get up
起牀；
eg. We will get up early and do some housework.
我們將早起並且做點家務。
eg. He was pleased to get up to the singing of birds.
他很高興起牀聽到鳥的歌唱。
2. open up
開…的門；
eg. Three armed men were waiting when the postmaster and his wife arrived to open up the shop.
當郵政局長和妻子到郵局開門營業時，3名持械男子正等着他們。
eg. Open up, or I break in!
把門打開，不然我要砸門了！
3. fire up
開動，發動（機器）；
eg. Put on a helmet, fire up your engine and head out on the open road.
戴上頭盔，發動引擎，開上鄉村幹道。
eg. We had better fire up the furnace.
我們最好把爐子生起來。