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Todd: OK, Roe, why don't we talk about your first job.
羅伊，我們問什么不談談你的第一份職業(yè)呢。
Roe: OK
好的。
Todd: Yeah, tell us about your first job.
跟我們談談你的第一份工作。
Roe: You mean my official full-time first job, talking about!
你是指談談我的第一份正式的全職工作！
Todd: Yeah, sure. How about that?
是的，沒錯。你的第一份工作怎么樣？
Roe: OK. That was right after graduating university. I became a salesman.
好的。那時我剛從大學畢業(yè)。我成為了一名銷售人員。
Todd: Oooh, salesman! Nice.
唔，銷售！很棒。
Roe: Yep, salesman.
是的，一名銷售。
Todd: What were you selling?
你銷售的產(chǎn)品是什么？
Roe: I was selling nothing.
我什么都不賣。
Todd: Nothing
什么都不賣？
Roe: Nothing. Well, basically I was selling a membership. So, that's, it's not something people can see or visualize, but it's like just membership, so.
什么都不賣。實際上，我銷售的是一種身份。它不是人們能夠看到的實體產(chǎn)品，而是一種會員身份。
Todd: Was it like a membership to a country club?
就像鄉(xiāng)村俱樂部的會員身份一樣？
Roe: Yeah, actually a private resorts and golf clubs.
是的，實際上那是一家私人度假村和高爾夫俱樂部。
Todd: Nice. Was this in Japan or in the US?
真棒，那是在日本還是在美國？
Roe: In Japan.
在日本。
Todd: Wow. What was the best thing about your job?
哇。這份工作最好的地方在于？
Roe: Troubles! Cause I have to knock on people's houses.
麻煩！因為我得去挨家挨戶地去敲門。
Todd: Oh, wow, it was door to door.
哇，挨家挨戶啊。
Roe: Exactly without any appointments and membership costs 5 million yen. Starting, starting costs.
是的，沒有任何預約的敲門訪問，而且會員費要500萬日元。而這只是入會費。
Todd: 5 million yen to start and you must have been in very rich neighborhoods.
500萬日元的入會費，那你肯定要去很高檔的社區(qū)了。
Roe: No, actually we just go to any areas. We just stop off at a station and we start from there.
不，實際上我們是什么社區(qū)都要去。隨便一站下車后就開展工作了。
Todd: Really. Were you successful?
真的嗎，那你的工作進展順利嗎？
Roe: It's a long story but to be honest with you, how many memberships do you think I sold in a year?
說來話長，但坦白講，你認為我一年能夠介紹多少會員入會？
Todd: Wow, I don't know. I will take a guess. In one year, maybe one, two a week, so my guess is, I don't know, a hundred.
哇，我不知道。我試著猜測一下。一年內(nèi)也許有……一周有1,2名，所以我猜……我不知道，一百名？
Roe: One!
一名！
Todd: One! One!
一名！
Roe: Can you believe it!
你能相信嗎！
Todd: So you must, so you remember the lucky person? Probably still remember that person.
那你肯定對你唯一的客戶印象很深刻了？也許至今還記得他。
Roe: And you know what, the person who bought my membership, is who? My father.
你知道嗎，是誰通過我的介紹入會？我的父親。
Todd: Ooh, that's a tough job.
哦，這項工作真的很艱巨。
Roe: It was rough, really. It was really rough.
真的很艱苦，真的。很艱苦。
Todd: That's a lot of rejection, every day. No, no, no
每天都會被很多人拒絕，總是聽到人說no，no，no。
Roe: I know, I mean if you think about it, that's natural though, I mean 5 million yen. and I can't really show the place, cause I can't take the person to the place. all I can do is show the picture and speak and that was right after the bubble economy bursted, so nobody had really, nobody had money, so.
我知道，我是說如果你仔細想想，這就是很自然的事，500萬日元啊。而且我無法展示俱樂部場所，因為我不能帶客戶過去參觀。我能做的只是展示圖片并且介紹，而且那正是在產(chǎn)生經(jīng)濟泡沫之后，所以沒有人真的想入會，也沒有人有這個閑錢。
Todd: Wow, man so were you depressed? Were you sad?
哇，兄弟，那你沮喪嗎？難過嗎？
Roe: It was very interesting. It was hard to motivate myself. The people would call the police, and call me like a robber Yeah, yeah, cause I had to like open the gate and run to the door and stick my leg so that they won't shut the door.
很有趣。這份工作很難激勵我的斗志。人們會報警稱我是強盜，所以我只能打開院門，小跑到房門前用腿頂住門縫，以防他們關上屋門。
Todd: Seriously.
你是認真的？
Roe: Yeah, that's how you do it. Door to door sells.
是的，是你也會這么做。這就是挨家挨戶的銷售。
Todd: Wow, that's, that's a tough job. I don't think I could do a job, what's your job now? What do you do now?
哇，真是一項艱苦的工作。我不認為我能勝任這份工作，你現(xiàn)在在做什么？從事什么職業(yè)？
Roe: I am, I work for Yokohama city and I am in a place called Yokohama Convention Bureau. It's a city job.
我在橫濱市橫濱會議局工作。這是一份市政工作。
Todd: OK, so the Yokohama Convention Bureau. OK, so you deal with foreigners, naturally cause it's in English.
好的，橫濱會議局。那么你主要和外國人打交道，自然是說英語了。
Roe: And travellers and visitors and what have you.
還有旅客和游客
Todd: Do you like your job now?
你熱愛你現(xiàn)在的工作嗎？
Roe: Interesting! Like I said I meet talk to about over 2,000 people a day, so it's kind of tiring though.
很有趣！如我所說的，我每天能和2000多人打交道，因此也是一份很辛苦的工作。
Todd: Wow, 2,000 people a day.
哇，一天接觸2000多人。
Roe: About 200 people an hour. My office is at the station. Yokohama station. Right out of the gate of the JR, so people are going to stop by.
大概一小時有200人。我的辦公室就在橫濱站。就在日本鐵路公司對面，所以經(jīng)常有人順便去看看我。
Todd: You, that's a lot of talking. You must be tired of talking.
我們談了很多，你一定很累了吧。
Roe: I am tired.
是的，很累。
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