影视剧中的职场美语 第2期:事业空窗

（单词翻译）

　　Woman:So, Mr. Cooper, you're looking for a job.
那么，Cooper先生，你想找份工作。
Sheldon:A menial job. Like yours.
一份低等工作。像你的一样。
Woman:Well, thank you for noticing. I'm "Menial Employee of the Month." Do you have a particular field in mind?
谢谢提醒。我是“月度低等员工”。你想过找哪种类型的工作吗?
Sheldon:I do. For thousands of years, The lowest classes of the human race have spent their lives laboring¹ to erect² monuments under the lash³ of their betters, until finally, they dropped down, and be came one with the dust through which they trudged⁴. Do you have anything like that?
是的。几千年来，最底层的人们耗尽一生在工头的皮鞭下建造出纪念碑，直到最后，他们全倒下了，全身布满辛苦工作的尘土。这里有这样的工作吗?
Woman:No.
没有。
Sheldon:Shouldn't you check your database?
你不用查一下数据库吗?
Woman:No.
没有。
Sheldon:You didn't really type?
你根本没有打字?
Woman:I didn't really have to. So, how about construction?
根本不需要。那么建筑业呢?
Sheldon:Oh, that would be good! Sawing, hammering, eating out of a lunch pail, as my workingclass fellows and I sit perched precariously⁵ on a girder high above the metropolis⁶.
噢，那很好啊!锯木，锤击，吃午餐桶里的食物，像我的工友们一样我摇摇欲坠地栖坐在都市上空的高梁上。
Woman:No, no. This is putting up sheetrock at a housing project in Rosemead.
不，不是。这份工作是为Rosemead的一个房屋搭建石膏水泥板。