【少儿英语口语】奥巴马求职
众所周知,奥巴马失业了,一位慷慨的面试官计划给奥巴马先生设计一个面试练习,以磨炼奥巴马先生的面试技巧,看了下面的英语口语对话,你会发现奥巴马总统大概是个……被总统职业耽误的段子手:
Interviewer: nice to meet you, Mr. Obama.
面试官:很高兴见到你,奥巴马先生。
Obama: How did you get in?
奥巴马:你是怎么进来的?
Interviewer: I'm so excited to meet you. You're about to get a new job, isn't that interesting?
面试官:能见到你,我很激动。你很快要找新工作了,是不是很有趣?
Obama: yes.
奥巴马:是的。
Interviewer: I'll help you.
面试官:我来帮你。
Obama: I didn't ask your help.
奥巴马:我没叫你来帮忙。
Interviewer: it doesn't matter if you're a little nervous, OK? Maybe we should do a mock interview first?
面试官:有点紧张也没关系,好吗?也许我们应该先做个模拟面试练习?
Obama: are you trying to improve my interview skills?
奥巴马:你是帮我磨炼一下面试技巧,这是你的意图吗?
Interviewer: Yes, that's what I do. Let's see what you're doing Okay?
面试官:是的,我就是干这个的。我们来看看你适合干什么?好吗?
Obama: OK, let's try.
奥巴马:好的,我们试试。
Interviewer: 55 years old, it's hard to start from scratch! I have a copy of your resume. You have not been promoted for the past eight years. It's not very good. Can you explain it?
面试官:55岁,从头开始有点难啊!我这有一份你的简历,我看你过去八年都没升过职,这一般不太
好,能解释一下吗?
Obama: to be honest, I didn't have much room for promotion in my last job. My wife is the only one higher than me.
奥巴马:老实讲,我上一份工作升职空间不大。唯一职位比我高的就是我老婆了。
Interviewer: can I get both of you?
面试官:我能把你们俩都招了吗?
Obama: impossible.
奥巴马:不太可能。
Interviewer: please tell me why you want to be inspirational. You said you didn't get fired, but it sounds like you can't stay on, is that right?
面试官:请告诉我你为什么要励志,你说不是被开除的,但听上去好像不能继续留任了,是这样吗?
Obama: my resignation is to follow the requirements of the twenty-second amendment to the constitution of the United states.
奥巴马:我离职是遵循《美国宪法》第22条修正案的要求。
Interviewer: please describe what kind of office you want.
面试官:请形容一下你想要什么样的办公室。
Obama: I'd like to have a nice corner office, or at least a corner office.
奥巴马:我希望能有个好点的角落办公室,或者,至少是有角的办公室。(他之前是椭圆形的oval
office)
Interviewer: can you tell me something about your achievements?
面试官:能讲一下你的成就吗?
Obama: I've come up with an international agreement to mitigate the negative effects of climate change and to prevent Iran from acquiring nuclear weapons.
奥巴马:我促成了一项有益于减缓气候变化负面影响的国际协议,阻止伊朗获得核武器。
Interviewer: anything else?
面试官:还有别的吗?
Obama: establishing diplomatic relations with cuba.
奥巴马:和古巴建交。
Interviewer: have you got any awards, medals?
面试官:你得过什么奖励,奖章吗?
Obama: I have almost thirty honorary degrees. And I won the Nobel peace prize.
奥巴马:我有差不多三十个荣誉学位。我还得过诺贝尔和平奖。
Interviewer: really? What for?
面试官:真的吗?为什么?
Obama: to be honest, I don't know.
奥巴马:老实讲,我不知道。
Interviewer: have you ever fired anyone?
面试官:你曾经开除过人吗?
Obama: No, I usually look for NSWDG.
奥巴马:没,这种事我一般找海豹六队。
Interviewer: Oh, outsourcing. Social media is very important. Do you have any experience in this field?
面试官:哦,外包,不错。社交媒体,非常重要,你有这方面的经验吗?
Obama: I have seventy-seven million fans
奥巴马:我有七千七百万粉丝,这算吗?
Interviewer: why do you have so many fans?
面试官:真厉害,你怎么会有这么多的粉丝?
Obama: presidential decree.
奥巴马:总统政令。
Interviewer: really?
面试官:真的?
Obama: and the cat photos.
奥巴马:还有晒猫照片。
Interviewer: very smart. What do you think is your biggest weakness when we tell the truth?
面试官:很聪明。我们实话实说,你觉得自己最大的缺点是什么?
Obama: this one...... Sometimes...... I speak...... Too many pauses.
奥巴马:这个嘛……有时候……我说话……太多停顿。
Interviewer: three words, what do you think of your colleagues?
面试官:三个字,总结下你对同事们有什么批评建议?
Obama: I can't stand the idea that people have reduced complex ideas to simple slogans.
奥巴马:我受不了别人把复杂的理念缩减为简单的口号。
Interviewer: the last question, what do you want to do?
面试官:最后一个问题,你最想做什么?
Obama: the end of the interview?
奥巴马:结束这场面试?
Interviewer: Good.
面试官:很好。
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