美語情景對話 第1275期:Have you ever worked for minimum wage? 你有拿過最低工資嗎?

Mike: Hey, this is Mike from Singapore.

邁克：嗨，我是邁克，來自新加坡。

MJ: And this is MJ from Korea.

MJ：我是MJ，來自韓國。

Mike: OK, MJ, we are gonna talk about wages. Have you ever worked for minimum wage?

邁克：好，MJ，我們來談談工資。你有做過領最低工資的工作嗎？

MJ: Actually I haven't really worked, so I didn't earn any money. So, I don't know the definition of the minimum wage and also I didn't get the minimum wage.

MJ：實際上我沒有真正工作過，所以我沒有掙過錢。我不知道最低工資的標準，我也沒拿過最低工資。

Mike: So you don't work, you don't get minimum wage.

邁克：所以，你沒有工作，沒領過最低工資。

MJ: How about you?

MJ：你呢？

Mike: Let's , I think in high school, I actually worked for a cleaning company, and I was assigned to a shopping mall as a toilet cleaner.

邁克：我想一下，我上高中時在一家清潔公司工作，我被派去一家購物中心打掃廁所。

MJ: Toilet cleaner?!

MJ：潔廁員？

Mike: Yeah, I worked as a or, let's call it floor supervisor. I prefer that word.

邁克：對，我負責打掃……或者我們稱之爲樓層主管。我更喜歡這個說法。

MJ: OK.

MJ：好。

Mike: And, so I'm not sure if that was minimum wage, but I thought I...I thought the pay was pretty good. I got about six dollars or seven dollars per hour. Six dollars per hour. But remember this was way back ably a decade ago. So I thought it was a pretty good pay.

邁克：我不確定那個工作拿的是否是最低工資，不過當時我認爲薪水還不錯。我每小時的薪資是6美元或7美元。6美元1小時。但是你要知道這是很久以前的事情，大概是10年以前。所以我認爲那份工作的薪水很不錯。

MJ: But it could be minimum wage, because it was a hard work. Compare to a hard work and that money, it could be.

MJ：不過那可能是最低工資，因爲那是辛苦的工作。就辛勤的工作來說，那很可能是最低工資。

Mike: Well, you are right. I could've been paid...

邁克：你說得對。我可能拿的是最低工資。

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