美語情景對話 第1114期:The Perfect Schedule 完美的日程

Rory: So I was thinking about my current job.

羅瑞：我想談談我現在的工作。

Abidemi: Uh-hmm.

阿比德米：嗯。

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

羅瑞：我認爲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：我週一和週二上班。然後週三休息一天。週四和週五上班，週末休息。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：你認爲什麼是好的工作安排？

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：我認爲你剛剛描述的聽起來非常不錯。我年輕時認爲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，然後去上班，下午2點下班以後還有很多時間，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，一週工作五天，那非常棒，午飯時間工作就結束了。剩下的時間都是空閒時間。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，因爲一整天我都在想“我一會兒要去上班”。我更喜歡在上午工作，儘快把工作完成。

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。我也喜歡儘快搞定工作，然後剩下的時間享受時光。我還做過一份週末上班，週一和週二休息的工作。我不太喜歡那份工作。因爲我週末不能和朋友見面，不能和朋友出去玩。所以我不喜歡那樣的工作。不工作呢？你認爲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，因爲我現在這份工作有很長的假期，不過我不工作的時候並不開心。我妻子對我很失望，因爲我沒什麼事做、呆在家裏的時候會有些煩人，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，你能堅持一週還是兩週？

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練，或是學習，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。如果什麼都不做，那三四天以後我就會想做些事情。也許就像你說的那樣，學習或是外出，做個項目，制定個目標。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，曾做過一兩週左右的集中教學工作，然後我會休息三四周的時間。我認爲那非常不錯，因爲有很多空閒時間，不過在休息兩三週以後，我就會非常希望進行下一個教學工作。不過集中教學非常難。我曾在俄羅斯做過爲期六週的集中教學，三週之後我就想回家了。六週的時間太長了。

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，俄羅斯的工作強度很大，因爲我要和學生們一起住在一所提供住宿的大學。我們一起吃早餐，然後早上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：大學裏有一家酒吧，我們晚上也會去那個酒吧放鬆。

Abidemi: And you had the same group of students?

阿比德米：是和同一批學生嗎？

Rory: The same group of students.

羅瑞：對，和同一撥學生。

Abidemi: For six weeks?

阿比德米：六週的時間？

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

羅瑞：對，我要進行六週的教學。

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。

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重點講解：
1. a chunk of 大量；大部分；
例句：The company owns a chunk of farmland near Gatwick Airport.
該公司擁有蓋特威克機場周邊的大片農田。
2. go out 外出交際；外出娛樂；
例句：I'm going out tonight.
我今晚要出去玩。
3. used to do sth. 過去常常；過去曾；
例句：He used to be one of the professors at the School of Education.
他曾是教育學院的一名教授。
4. look forward to sth./doing sth. 期待；盼望；
例句：I'm really looking forward to our vacation.
我確實期待着假期到來。