1. At those low wages, few will apply for the job. Who wants to work for a pittance? 很少人会去申请那个低薪的工作,谁想为微薄的薪水工作?
2. A few weeks with one firm, a few days with another, then out of a job, then on again for a month perhaps, and so on. 在这家公司干几个星期,在另一家干上几天,然后没有活干,接着也许又能找到工作干上个把月,一个夏天就这样,一会儿有活干,一会儿没活干。
3. As I was a Black, my job was to wait on tables, wash dishes, do the work of a mess-boy. 因为我是黑人,就分派我当食堂服务员,端菜端饭,洗刷碗碟。
4. As workaholics tend to put all their eggs in one basket, their job, they can be helped by spreading these eggs into several baskets. 因为工作狂把一切希望都寄托在一件事--他们的工作上,因此帮助他们的办法是把他们的希望分散到几件事上去。
5. A friend of mine (a sales representative for a chemical company) was making twice the salary of college instructors during her first year on the job — even before she completed her two-year associate degree. 我的一个朋友(一个化工公司的销售代理)在干这份工作的第一年所挣的钱就已是大学教师薪水的两倍了——这甚至还是在她修完2年制的准学士学位课程之前的事。
6. And when male high-school students are asked what kinds of careers they would like to have, the only two job fields that consistently receive large numbers of responses in open surveys are "professional athlete" and "media personality& 还有,当问到男中学生他们想从事什么样的职业时,在公开调查中仅有两类行业的工作经常收到大量的反馈,那就是"职业运动员"和"媒体从业者"。
7. "This doesn't reflect on your job performance; sales are down 30 per cent this month." "虽然这个月的销售额下降了30%,但这不影响你的工作业绩。"
8. At the least, it explains the greater job stability in Japan, in contrast to the great job mobility in America. 至少,它说明了美国的工作流动性大和相比而言日本的工作稳定性极高的原因。
9. "My goal is to get a good job with a good company," he said. 他说,"我的目标是要在一家好公司里找到一份好工作。"
10. A later job as a designer at an advertising agency "taught me about the business of art" . 后来,她在一家广告公司做设计师,这工作"教给了我艺术生意经"。