實戰(zhàn)口語情景對話：Conrad's English House 康拉德的英語屋

Todd: So, Conrad, you have a new business. Can you talk a little about your new business?

托德：康拉德，你開始了新事業(yè)。你能談談你的新事業(yè)嗎?

Conrad: Sure, I have a small English language school called Conrad's English House here in Odawara, where we're sitting here, and by the way, thanks for helping me as my guest teacher today, Todd.

康拉德：當然可以，我在小田原開了一家小型的英語語言學校，名字是康拉德的英語屋，就是我們現(xiàn)在坐的這里，對了，托德，謝謝你今天幫忙做客座講師。

Todd: Oh, no problem, no problem.

托德：哦，不用謝，不客氣。

Conrad: Yeah, I started it in April and all of my students are very motivated and it just makes teaching a very joyful experience.

康拉德：嗯，我四月份創(chuàng)辦的這家學校，我的學生都非常積極，這使教學成為了有趣的經歷。

Todd: So, what's it like being a new business owner, or owning your own business compared to working for somebody else?

托德：當老板的感覺怎么樣?擁有自己的企業(yè)和給別人打工相比如何?

Conrad: Yeah, well, it's so much better to run your own school and to be in control ofthings for one thing, but also, all of the hard work that us English teachers do here in Japan, usually we're doing it for another company, but now I'm doing it for myself and it makes, really, every minute of it much more pleasurable.

康拉德：自己經營學校感覺好多了，一方面可以自己掌控事情，另一方面，日本的英語教師很辛苦，通常我們都是給別人做事，但是現(xiàn)在我為自己工作，所以每一分鐘都很愉快。

Todd: Can you give an example of why it's different, or how it's not the same as working for a company?

托德：你能舉例來說明一下不同之處嗎?自己當老板與為別人工作有什么不同?

Conrad: Yeah, well, for one I can set my own schedule and the times, the hours are what are comfortable for me and what I think match my students needs the best as well.

康拉德：首先，我可以制定自己的計劃和時間，我可以選擇感覺舒服的時間工作，教授我認為最符合學生需求的內容。

Todd: Is there anything about owning your own company, or your own business, that you don't like?

托德：自己當老板有沒有什么地方是你不喜歡的?

Conrad: Not, yet Todd. It's just been since April and so far everything's been nothing to complain about although, you know, just being a new business owner there's lots of things that need to be taken care of and thankfully my, wife, Aki is taking care of all those things like setting up the school and getting a business license and all of those things that need to be done.

康拉德：托德，目前我還沒有不喜歡的。我四月份才開始創(chuàng)業(yè)，目前沒有什么可抱怨的，不過創(chuàng)業(yè)有很多事情要處理，幸運的是，我妻子秋處理了這些事，比如成立學校，獲得營業(yè)執(zhí)照還有其他需要做的事情。