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Trying to make some money before entering university, the author applies for a teaching job. But the interview goes from bad to worse ...
為了想在進(jìn)大學(xué)前賺些錢，作者申請(qǐng)了一份教職。但面試情況卻越來(lái)越糟……
My First Job
我的第一份工作
Robert Best
羅伯特·貝斯特
While I was waiting to enter university, I saw advertised in a local newspaper a teaching post at a school in a suburb of London about ten miles from where I lived. Being very short of money and wanting to do something useful, I applied, fearing as I did so, that without a degree and with no experience in teaching my chances of getting the job were slim.
在我等著進(jìn)大學(xué)期間，我在一份地方報(bào)紙上看到一則廣告，說(shuō)是在離我住處大約十英里的倫敦某郊區(qū)，有所學(xué)校要招聘一名教師。我因?yàn)槭诸^很拮據(jù)，同時(shí)也想干點(diǎn)有用的事，于是便提出了申請(qǐng)，但在提出申請(qǐng)的同時(shí)我也擔(dān)心，自己一無(wú)學(xué)位，二無(wú)教學(xué)經(jīng)驗(yàn)，得到這份工作的可能性是微乎其微的。
However, three days later a letter arrived, asking me to go to Croydon for an interview. It proved an awkward journey: a train to Croydon station; a ten-minute bus ride and then a walk of at least a quarter of a mile. As a result I arrived on a hot June morning too depressed to feel nervous.
然而，三天之后，卻來(lái)了一封信，叫我到克羅伊頓去面試。這一路去那兒原來(lái)還真麻煩：先乘火車到克羅伊頓車站，再乘十分鐘的公共汽車，然后還要步行至少四分之一英里。結(jié)果，我在六月一個(gè)炎熱的上午到了那兒，因?yàn)樾那榉浅＞趩剩共桓械骄o張了。
The school was a red brick house with big windows. The front garden was a gravel square; four evergreen shrubs stood at each comer, where they struggled to survive the dust and fumes from a busy main road.
學(xué)校是一座裝著大窗戶的紅磚房子。前庭園是個(gè)鋪著砂礫的正方形：四個(gè)角上各有一叢冬青灌木，它們經(jīng)受著從繁忙的大街上吹來(lái)的塵煙，掙扎著活下去。
It was clearly the headmaster himself that opened the door. He was short and fat. He had a sandy-coloured moustache, a wrinkled forehead and hardly any hair.
開(kāi)門的顯然是校長(zhǎng)本人。他又矮又胖，留著沙色的小胡子，前額上布滿皺紋，頭發(fā)差不多已經(jīng)禿光。
