美語情景對話 第616期:Odd Job 奇怪的工作

Todd: OK, Jeff, we're talking about odd jobs. Good jobs, bad jobs, strange jobs we've done. What's an odd job you've had Jeff?

託德：傑夫，我們來談談工作。我們做過好的工作、壞的工作，還有一些奇怪的工作。傑夫，你做過什麼奇怪的工作？

Jeff: Todd, one of my oddest odd jobs might be was when I was backpacking through Europe after university, I ran out of money in Israel and there's an organization called a Kibutz, where it's communal living and you can do a job and they give you your room and board. They they don't pay you in money but they give you food and lodging and a good experience of living with the Israelis so I worked on a fish pond. A fish pond. And it means raising fish, growing fish that they are going to sell in the supermarket. And so what that entails was I got up in the morning and we fed the fish. You has a machine that put fish food, fish pellets into the lake, into the fish pond and then you'd have to clean up the fish pond, and you'd have to make some calls to the markets, to the supermarkets and find out who wanted what, when they needed it and make sure that your system, your fish could be ready when they needed it and it was beautiful because it was working with nature sort of out in the Israeli countryside and it was sunny and warm everyday. You were working with other good quality guys, so it was good. It was an interesting job, very odd, odd job, and it was a good experience as well.

傑夫：託德，我大學畢業後進行揹包穿越歐洲之旅時做的那份工作應該是我做過最奇怪的工作之一，我在以色列的時候用光了身上的錢，有個組織名爲基布茲，那是一種集體社區，你在那裏工作的話，他們會給你提供房間和食物。他們不會付你工資，但是會爲你提供食物和住宿，還可以體驗和和以色列人一起生活，我當時在一個魚塘工作。主要工作是餵養要拿到超市去賣的魚。早上起牀以後就要去餵魚。那裏有一個機器用來把魚食放進湖裏和魚塘裏，喂完魚後要清理魚塘，給市場和超市打電話，確定他們的需求以及他們何時需要這些魚，確保你能按時把魚交給他們，這份工作很不錯，因爲我是在以色列的郊區工作，可以接觸到自然美景，每天都是陽光明媚、溫暖的好天氣。而且還可以和其他優秀的人一起工作，所以這份工作很好。這既是一份有意思的工作，又是一份奇怪的工作，當然也是一份很好的經驗。

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重點講解：
1. run out of 用完；耗盡；
例句：We have run out of head notepaper.
我們已用完了有擡頭的信紙。
2. clean up 打掃；清掃；把…弄乾淨；
例句：She is cleaning up the kitchen now.
她現在正在打掃廚房。
3. find out （尤指特意通過努力）發現，找出，查明；
例句：Don't just accept his say-so: find out for yourself.
別聽他信口開河，你得自己去弄清楚。
4. make sure 一定要；設法保證；
例句：You must make sure of the time and place.
你必須把時間和地點弄清楚。
5. as well 也；還；
例句：I write my own songs and I play the guitar as well.
我唱自己譜曲的歌，也彈吉他。