【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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