M: Well, I see from your resume, Miss Green, that you studied at the University College. How did you find there?
男:格林小姐,我從你的簡歷上看到,你在大學學院學習過。你覺得這個地方怎么樣?
W: I had a great time. The teaching there was good and I made a lot of friends. The psychology department was a great place to be.
女:我在那里度過了一段美好時光。那里的教學出色,我也交了很多朋友。心理學系是一個很棒的地方。
M: How come you chose psychology?
男:你為什么選擇心理學?
W: Well, at first I didn't have any clear idea of what I wanted to do after university. I guess I've just always been interested in people and the way they act.
女:起初,我對大學畢業后想做什么沒有一個明確的概念。我想我一直對人及其行為方式感興趣。
W: I wanted to know why people think and act the way they do. It's a fascinating area.
女:我想知道人們為什么會這樣思考和行動。這是一個很吸引人的區域。
M: And what was the course like?
男:這門課是什么樣的?
W: Good. The teachers were all really nice and they had the special approach to teaching.
女:很好。老師們都很好,他們有特殊的教學方法。
W: You know they didn't just give us lectures and tell us to read books like they might do in some more traditional places.
女:你知道,他們不像其他比較傳統的地方的老師一樣,只給我們講課,或者讓我們讀書。
W: The whole course was based on the problem-solving approach. You know they described a paiticular situation to us and we discuss what might happen.
女:整個課程都基于解決問題的方法。你知道,他們向我們描述一種情況,我們討論可能發生的事情。
W: And after that we do some reading and see if it confirmed our own ideas. That's what I liked best—the really practical orientation of the course.
女:在那之后我們做一些閱讀,看看它是否證實了我們自己的想法。這就是我最喜歡的:課程的實用方向。
W: I learnt very well with that style. So for me, it was just great.
女:通過這種方式我學得很好。所以對我來說,這太棒了。
M: I see from your resume that you graduated about four years ago and after that... let me see...
男:我從你的簡歷上看到你四年前畢業后……讓我看看…
W: I got a job with the Department of Employment. It was only a temporary thing for about five months. I was a researcher in the department.
女:我在勞工部找到了一份工作。這只是暫時的,大約五個月。我是這個部門的研究員。
W: We design a survey, go out to the factories, and ask all the questions to the workers and the management, then go back to the office, analyze all the data and produce a report.
女:我們設計調查,去工廠向工人和管理人員詢問所有的問題,然后回到辦公室,分析所有的數據并生成一份報告。
W: It was quite interesting and I guessed the psychology course at college helped me a lot.
女:這很有趣,我猜大學的心理學課程對我很有幫助。