英文原版对话1000个:1246 Outsource on the Small

 　　Julia: So Todd, we were talking about outsourcing and how you use these kind of services when you do your website.

　　Todd: Uh-uh.

　　Julia: What kind of careers do people follow?

　　Todd: You know, you can do anything. It's amazing. If you go to oDesk or if you go to Freelancer¹, anything. I mean they have accounting² services, legal services, people that do writing, proof reading, photo editing, video production, voice actors, there's so many jobs that you can buy online or people you can hire online.

　　Julia: Wow.

　　Todd: Yeah. And I think it's really cool if you want another career or if you want to travel the world, you know it's an easy way to work from anywhere in the world. So a lot of jobs where you just work from a computer, you know you can do it anywhere. You can go live in Vietnam or you can go live in Argentina and you can do your work there if you can get the work together. So I think it's a great opportunity for a lot of people.

　　Julia: Yeah, it sounds so flexible and yeah, brilliant. My mother is a tailor, she's a qualified³ tailor, could she do that? Could she outsource or does it have to be an online service?

　　Todd: Yeah, I think it pretty much has to be any white collar job. It has to be basically something that you would do with a computer. You know you might be able to, like you might be able to get a contract and then maybe ship people the work or whatever. I think if you were going to do that, what you would want to do is you probably can get stuff by using Google, Google AdSense, you know, or AdWords, I can't remember which is which, but you can place ads let's say in Google so you can drum up business anywhere in the world. So like for example if your mom wanted to go live in Cuba what she could do is place ads, Google ads, and maybe she can get tailoring work and do it from Cuba and then maybe send, you know, send the products to people around the world via shipping⁴. So, yeah, I guess you could. So how about you? Would you be into that? Would you be interested in having a digital life and just living anywhere in the world?

　　Julia: Well, I'm a yoga instructor⁵ so my work involves being generally in the same room. I guess you could do something online with it but I like, I'm a people person, I like to interact with people so I think I'd find it quite lonely working. I appreciate that it would be good for traveling, like if you wanted to go live somewhere really exotic and not do a nine to five job, I could imagine it for short term maybe but I like working with people face to face so I'd find it a bit lonely I think.

　　Todd: Yeah. I know what you mean. I know what you mean.

1 freelancer   

n.自由职业者

参考例句：

• He has great interest in working as a freelancer.他对做个自由职业人很感兴趣。
• It's not always easy to make it as a freelancer.做个自由职业人，要能时常感觉满足，可不容易。

2 accounting   

n.会计，会计学，借贷对照表

参考例句：

• A job fell vacant in the accounting department.财会部出现了一个空缺。
• There's an accounting error in this entry.这笔账目里有差错。

3 qualified   

adj.合格的，有资格的，胜任的，有限制的

参考例句：

• He is qualified as a complete man of letters.他有资格当真正的文学家。
• We must note that we still lack qualified specialists.我们必须看到我们还缺乏有资质的专家。

4 shipping   

n.船运（发货，运输，乘船）

参考例句：

• We struck a bargain with an American shipping firm.我们和一家美国船运公司谈成了一笔生意。
• There's a shipping charge of ￡5 added to the price.价格之外另加五英镑运输费。

5 instructor   

n.指导者，教员，教练

参考例句：

• The college jumped him from instructor to full professor.大学突然把他从讲师提升为正教授。
• The skiing instructor was a tall,sunburnt man.滑雪教练是一个高高个子晒得黑黑的男子。