I got a great job offer.

現(xiàn)在就業(yè)市場競爭激烈，要找一份合適兼待遇優(yōu)厚的工作一點(diǎn)也不容易。如果你很幸運(yùn)覓得一份好工，你可高興地告訴別人：I got a great job offer.（我獲得一份很好的工作）。一份夢寐以求的工作可稱為A dream job，難得的事業(yè)機(jī)會則叫A great career opportunity。

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Amy: You look pleased with yourself.

Joe: I am. I got a great job offer and I'm very excited.

Amy: Great! What did they offer you?

Joe: Five hundred dollars to never set foot in their office again. The way I looked was turning their customers away. I could make a career out of this.

艾美:你看來得意洋洋。

喬:對呀，我獲得一份很好的工作，非常興奮。

艾美:很棒呀！待遇如何呢？

喬:他們給我五百塊叫我以后別在公司出現(xiàn)，我的樣子嚇跑了他們的顧客，我想我可以憑此道謀生。

艾美對喬說：You look pleased with yourself.（你看來得意洋洋）。喬解釋說：I got a great job offer。 說人洋洋自得，英文有一句成語：as pleased as Punch。Punch是木偶趣劇Punch and Judy里的主角，常常和妻子朱迪打架，并常常自鳴得意。He appeared as pleased as Punch when he got the job即‘他獲得那份工作，看來洋洋得意’。

A great job offer的offer是‘提出’、‘給予’的意思，I got a great job offer即‘我獲得一份很好的工作’。薪金優(yōu)厚的職位，英文叫做fat job或plum job，例如：His father has got him a fat/plum job in the government（他父親幫他找到一份待遇優(yōu)渥的政府工作）。工作輕松的職位，則叫cushy job，一般帶貶意，例如：She has a cushy job, and spends much of her time in the office reading novels.（她的工作可輕松，經(jīng)常在辦公室里讀小說）。

Job、post、position、office、career都可譯做‘職業(yè)’，但含義有點(diǎn)不同。Office是指大機(jī)構(gòu)或政府的高職，post、position一般是指白領(lǐng)或?qū)I(yè)職位，job可泛指各種職位，而career則是長遠(yuǎn)的事業(yè)，例如：(1) The president came into office four years ago.（總統(tǒng)四年前就職）。(2) I would like to apply for the position of Advertising Manager.（我想申請廣告經(jīng)理一職）。(3) I hold a blue-collar/white collar job.（我擔(dān)任藍(lán)領(lǐng)/白領(lǐng)工作）。(4) He had a successful career as a teacher.（他長期從事教學(xué)，十分成功）。