【英语口语练习册】理想中的工作（2）

Todd: OK. Jessica, we're back. We're gonna talk about your future. What do you want to be when you grow up?

 

Jessica: Well, um, I wanna be a physician's assistant.

 

Todd: OK. What is a physician's assistant?

 

Jessica: Well, normally when you go into a, into the doctor's office, you wouldn't usually get, well you would get your doctor all they do is check, give you check-ups or you know maybe take out stitches or something, not surgery. You just go in and do the little things. So the doctor does not have to do them.

 

Todd: Oh, OK. So that is what you want to do?

 

Jessica: Yeah.

 

Todd: OK.

 

Jessica: And make lots of money.

 

Todd: You wanna make lots of money.

 

Jessica: OK. Nothing wrong with that.

 

Todd: How do you become a physici... physician's assistant. I can't even say it.

 

Jessica: It's a lot of schooling¹. You have like six years, four or six years of college and you obviously take the,like nursing and other kinds of classes like that and then you do like um, two, two or four years at like a hospital as a..

 

Todd: Like an assistant, or..

 

Jessica: Like, like you're actually doing.

 

Todd: Oh, an intern².

 

Jessica: An intern, yeah! An internship³ for two or four years at a hospital.

 

Todd: Then, that's it. You finish.

 

Jessica: And then you hopefully go on and maybe have your own little doctor's place and open that up or something.

 

Todd: Well, best wishes on becoming a physician's assistant. I'm sure you'll make a good one.

 

Jessica: Thank you. 

1 schooling   

n.教育；正规学校教育

参考例句：

• A child's access to schooling varies greatly from area to area.孩子获得学校教育的机会因地区不同而大相径庭。
• Backward children need a special kind of schooling.天赋差的孩子需要特殊的教育。

2 intern   

v.拘禁，软禁；n.实习生

参考例句：

• I worked as an intern in that firm last summer.去年夏天我在那家商行实习。
• The intern bandaged the cut as the nurse looked on.这位实习生在护士的照看下给病人包扎伤口。

3 internship   

n.实习医师，实习医师期

参考例句：

• an internship at a television station 在电视台的实习期
• a summer internship with a small stipend 薪水微薄的暑期实习