影视剧中的职场美语 第6期:谈论薪酬

　　"You'll let me know, Jay"? What do you mean?
给我答复，你这是什么意思？
Yeah, I'll give you a call tomorrow sometime...
我明天会打给你。
What are you talking? You hounded¹ me for this.
你在说什么?你一直缠着我。?
You stood here... Listen, there's no salary.
听着，实习期没有薪水。
No. I was not aware of that.
我并不知道。
My circumstances have changed some...
我很缺钱。
...and I need to be certain that I'll be... All right. Okay.
我得确定一定会被…好吧。
Tonight.
今晚给我答覆。
I swear I will fill your spot. I promise.
我保证你以后会被正式录用。
If you back out, you know what I'll look like to the partners?
你知道如果自己临阵脱逃会害我被股东们怎么看？
Yes, an ass²... A-hole.
蠢蛋。
Yeah, an ass A-hole, all the way.
没错，不折不扣的蠢蛋
You are a piece of work.
你真不是盖的。
Tonight.
今晚。
There was no salary.
没有薪水。
Not even a reasonable promise of a job.
不能保证能被录用。
One intern³ was hired at the end of the program from a pool of 20.
二十名实习生要抢一个工作职位。
And if you weren't that guy...
如果你没有雀屏中选。
you couldn't even apply the six months' training to another brokerage.
这6个月的培训在其他经纪公司也不适用。
The only resource I would have for six months...
这半年我只能靠那6台扫描机。
would be my six scanners, which I could still try to sell.
我还是可以试着卖出去.
If I sold them all, maybe we might get by.
如果全都卖出去就能勉强过活。

1 hounded   

追猎（hound的过去式与过去分词形式）

参考例句：

• They were hounded day and night by the press. 他们日夜遭到新闻界的跟踪。
• When his employers discovered his shameful past, they hounded him out of the company. 当他的雇主发现他过去不光彩的行为后，就把他从公司赶了出去。

2 ass   

n.驴；傻瓜，蠢笨的人

参考例句：

• He is not an ass as they make him.他不象大家猜想的那样笨。
• An ass endures his burden but not more than his burden.驴能负重但不能超过它能力所负担的。

3 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。