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1 .<-NARRATOR:-> Listen to a conversation between a student and a university employee at the campus employment office.

旁白：请听一位学生和大学就业办公室的一位雇员之间的对话。

1 .<-FEMALE EMPLOYEE:->Hi, can I help you?

雇员：嗨，有什么需要帮忙的吗？

1 .<-MALE STUDENT:->I hope so. [upspeak] My name's Mark Wickman. I'm...

学生：希望如此。我的名字叫Mark Wickman，我是......

1 .<-FEMALE EMPLOYEE:->[kindly] Don't I remember you from last year? You worked in, uh, where was it? The art library?

雇员：我记得去年见过你，你在......哪儿来着？你在艺术图书馆工作过？

1 .<-MALE STUDENT:->[friendly] Yeah, you're good. That was me, and I really enjoyed the work.

学生：是的，你的记性真好。是我没错，我非常喜欢那份工作。

1 .<-FEMALE EMPLOYEE:->Right, yeah. Your supervisor gave us some really great feedback at the end of the year. [quoting] “Oh, he’s so organized, always on time, helpful...”

雇员：没错，去年年底你的指导员给了我们一些非常棒的回馈，说：“他非常井井有条，总是很准时，乐于助人......”

1 .<-MALE STUDENT:->[modest] Really, well.. I'm glad. It was a good job.

学生：真的吗？哇，我很高兴。那份工作很不错。

1 .<-FEMALE EMPLOYEE:->Well, we usually try to match student's jobs with their academic interests.

雇员：我们通常会按照学生们的学业兴趣来给他们匹配工作。

1 .<-MALE STUDENT:->Yeah, um, I'm not exactly sure what career I'm headed for. But librarian is a possibility.

学生：是的，我不是非常确定我将来要做的职业，但是图书馆管理员是一种可能性。

2 .It was a great experience to learn how it works and meet some people working in the field. But for this year, well, that's what I wanted to ask about.

能够知道它是如何运作的，见到一些在这个领域工作的人是一次很棒的经历，但是今年......这正是我想问的。

1 .<-FEMALE EMPLOYEE:->[surprised, troubled] Oh, how come you waited so long to come in?

雇员：你怎么等了这么久才过来？

2 .You know how fast campus jobs fill up. If you'd come in earlier, you could probably have gotten the library job again.

你也知道学校里的工作多快就能招满人，如果你早点过来，也许就能再次拿得到图书馆的工作了。

3 .I mean, since you have the experience from last year, you don't need the training and all. But it's been filled now.

我的意思是，鉴于你去年的经验，你根本不需要培训什么的，但是现在已经招到人了。

1 .<-MALE STUDENT:->Yeah, I know.

学生：嗯，我知道。

2 .But I plan to get a job working at a restaurant off campus this year.

但是我原本打算今年在校外找一份餐馆里的工作。

3 .I really need to make more money than I did last year, and working as a waiter, there's always the tips.

我真的需要比去年多挣些钱，而当服务员总是会有小费。

4 .[shrugs] But I've tried a ton of places and I haven't found anything.

但是我已经试了很多地方了，一份工作都没找到。

5 .[hesitant] I know it's really late, but, well, um, I was wondering if maybe there was some job that hadn't been taken or maybe someone started a job,and you know, had to drop it or something.

我知道已经很晚了，但是我想知道也许是不是还有一些没招到人的工作，或者某个人开始做工作了，但是不得不中途放弃什么的。

1 .<-FEMALE EMPLOYEE:->Well, I doubt you'll find anything.

雇员：我怀疑你可能什么工作都找不到了。

1 .<-MALE STUDENT:->Could you, could you possibly check?

学生：你能不能查看一下？

2 .I know it's a long shot but …my friend Susanne, she takes photography classes in Harrison Hall and...um...she sort of thought there might be an opening in the janitorial staff.

我知道可能性不大，但是我的朋友Susanne在Harrison中心上摄影课，她认为管理员中也许还有空缺。

1 .<-FEMALE EMPLOYEE:->Urn, why does your friend, the photography student, think she has information about a janitorial staff opening?

雇员：你的朋友，那个学摄影的学生，为什么会认为她有关于管理员空缺的信息呢？

2 .I'm pretty sure those jobs are filled. In fact, I remember taking lots of applications for them, but let me double check it online.

我非常确定这些工作都招到人了，事实上，我记得收到了好多应聘这些职位的申请，但是我还是在网上再确认一下吧。

1 .<-MALE STUDENT:->She said the whole studio arts building and especially the photo lab have been kind of, uh, sort of messy lately,

学生：她说整个艺术工作室大楼，尤其是暗房最近有点脏乱。

2 .I mean, she says there's...uh...chemicals and stuff left out, and you know, it's like no one's been cleaning up.

她说有化学物质之类的东西漏出来了，就像没人打扫过一样。

3 .[Quickly] Oh, but that could just be, you know, students using the lab after hours or something, like after it's been cleaned.

不过那可能只是学生在打扫干净几个小时后用了暗房。

1 .<-FEMALE EMPLOYEE:->[Still checking the computer] Hmm…hang on. There’s…uh…there is um… an asterisk gap…uh, next to one of the job numbers here. There's a note.

雇员：嗯......等一下，这里的一个工作编码旁边又出现了星号。那里有个标注。

2 .Let's see... [Reads for a moment ] Ha, your friend's right.

我来看看......哈，你朋友说的没错。

3 .Seems like one of the student janitors quit a couple of weeks ago for some reason.

看起来一个学生管理员由于某些原因几个星期前不干了。

4 .Well, whatever, it looks like this is your lucky day.

不管怎样，看起来今天是你的幸运日啊。

1 .<-MALE STUDENT:->Wow! That is so great. So who's the contact person?

学生：哇！太棒了。那我该跟谁联系呢？

1 .<-FEMALE EMPLOYEE:->Check with the janitorial office.

雇员：去管理员办公室问问吧。

1 .<-MALE STUDENT:->Fine. Thanks so much.

学生：好的，太感谢了。