2013年英语专八真题听力 采访1

Interviewer: Good morning, Mr. West. Nice to have you on our program.

采访者：早上好，韦斯特先生。很高兴你参加我们的节目。

Interviewee:Good morning.

受访者：早上好。

Interviewer: OK. We all work or very few people can in get away with not working. Work is a fact of life when we're adults.

采访者：好的。我们都在工作，或者很少有人能逃脱不工作的惩罚。当我们是成年人时，工作是生活的一个事实。

But before, there wasn't a lot of choice in the selection of work.Now things are different.

但在此之前，在作品的选择上并没有太多的选择。现在情况不一样了。

With greater mobility, the mobility that is offered when people have greater opportunities for higher education or training, more and more people are able to choose the fields that interest them.

随着更大的流动性，流动性是提供时，人们有更大的机会接受高等教育或培训，越来越多的人能够选择他们感兴趣的领域。

They can and do have opinions about what makes one job for them better than another job. So Mr. West, what do people actually want from their jobs?

他们可以也确实有自己的看法，认为一份工作比另一份工作更适合他们。韦斯特先生，人们到底想从工作中得到什么？

What are workers’ opinions, you know, about what makes one job better than another?

什么是工人的意见，你知道，什么使一个工作比另一个更好？

Interviewee: Well, to answer your questions, I'd like to look at two polls, two surveys. They were both done in the 1990s.

受访者：好吧，回答你的问题，我想看两个民调，两个调查。它们都是在上世纪90年代完成的。

The purposes were to find out what issues or job characteristics were especially important to workers.

目的是找出哪些问题或工作特征对工人特别重要。

Interviewer: Umm. What were they?

采访者：嗯。他们是什么？

Interviewee: Some of you might guess that the answer is obvious.

受访者：你们中的一些人可能会猜到答案是显而易见的。

Interviewer: I think so.

采访者：我觉得是。

Interviewee: You might say“oh people just want high er salaries, more money. But let's see if that's true.

受访者：你可能会说“哦，人们只是想要更高的薪水，更多的钱。但我们来看看是不是真的。

Interviewer: OK.

采访者：好的。

Interviewee: Now, the first poll. The first poll was taken in 1990, and this poll asked respondents to choose what was the most important to them among five items.

受访者：现在，第一次投票。第一次民意调查是在1990年进行的，这项调查要求受访者在五个项目中选择对他们来说最重要的。

And they were only allowed to choose one out of the five items.

他们只能从五个项目中选择一个。

Interviewer: So what were the five items?

采访者：那么这五项是什么呢？

Interviewee: Alright. The first item was important and meaningful work. The second was high income.

受访者：好吧第一项是重要和有意义的工作。其次是高收入。

The third was chances for advancement, promotion and so on. The fourth item was job security, and the fifth was shorter work hours,OK?

第三是晋升、晋升等机会。第四项是工作保障，第五项是缩短工作时间，好吗？

Interviewer: It would be interesting to know the survey results.

采访者：如果能知道调查结果会很有意思。

Interviewee: Yes, now let me tell you the results. 50% considered important and meaningful work the most important characteristic of a job.

受访者：是，现在让我告诉你结果。50%的人认为重要且有意义的工作是工作最重要的特征。

They didn't choose high income.Interesting.Anyway24% did say high income was the most important characteristic of a job.

他们没有选择高收入。有意思。任何方式24%确实说过高收入是一份工作最重要的特征。

Of the remaining, 16% said chances for advancement was most important Maybe these were younger workers,starting out on a career.

在剩下的人中，16%的人认为晋升机会是最重要的也许这些是刚开始职业生涯的年轻工人。

6% said job security and finally 4% said shorter work hours was most important.

6%的人认为工作安全，最后4%的人认为缩短工作时间是最重要的。

Interviewer: I think what's striking about the results is that by far workers valued important and meaningful work as more important than any of the other characteristics, that included salary.

采访者：我认为调查结果最令人吃惊的是，到目前为止，员工认为重要且有意义的工作比包括薪水在内的其他因素更重要。

Interviewee: Yeah. Now I'm going to tell you about another poll, and this poll was taken a year later in 1991, and it asked the respondents to reflect on how important certain job characteristics were their work.

受访者：是啊。现在我要告诉你们另一个调查，这个调查是在一年后的1991年进行的，它让受访者思考某些工作特性对他们的工作有多重要。

And this is a different type of poll because whereas in the first poll, respondents had to choose only one out of five, in this poll they wanted their respondents to react to each item separately.

这是一个不同类型的调查，因为在第一次调查中，受访者只能从五个项目中选择一个，在这次调查中，他们希望受访者对每个项目分别做出反应。

You know, this is to rank each item as “not important”,“somewhat important”, “important” or “very important”.

要知道，这是对每一项进行“不重要”、“有点重要”、“重要”或“非常重要”的排序。

So they have four choices for each item.

所以他们每个项目都有四个选择。

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