VOA常速英语2019--美国消防员的生活（在线收听）

Life inside the Firehouse

Hi, I’m Carla Hidalgo-Gato with Montgomery County Fire Rescue and I’m a firefighter here. Come on in.

嗨，我是蒙哥马利县消防队的卡拉·伊达尔戈·加托，我是这里的消防员。快请进。 

We run everything from a broken toe to a building on fire.

我们处理各种事情，从断了的脚趾到着火的房子。 

This is the watch office where our calls come in and we do all of our reporting.

这是值班室，我们在这里接电话，做报告。 

Hi, it’s Carla at 22. How are you?

嗨，我是22号的卡拉。你好吗？ 

About 85% of the calls that we run our EMS (Emergency Medical Service) calls, which is medical and the other 15% or so our fire calls.

大约85%的电话是紧急医疗服务（EMS）电话，都跟医疗救援有关，另外15%左右是火警电话。 

This is our training room and conference room.

这是我们的培训室和会议室。 

We have our lineup board which is all the writing positions and what equipment we’re all responsible for.

我们有我们的队员板，介绍了我们每个人的职位和负责的设备。 

This is our kitchen and dining room.

这是我们的厨房和餐厅。 

We generally cook together as a shift, and especially for dinner. We have dinner together.

我们通常轮班一起做饭，尤其是晚餐。我们经常一起吃晚饭。 

We all sleep in the same room. It’s…I’ve been doing this for 25 years and I’ve slept in open bunkrooms.

我们都睡在一个房间里，干这行25年了，我一直睡在这个开放的小房间里， 

Almost every firehouse in Montgomery County has an open bunkroom.

蒙哥马利县几乎每个消防站都有一个开放式的小房间。 

All the people I’ve ever worked with, it’s been a very pleasant experience.

我跟我的同事在这里度过了很美好的时光。 

As a firefighter, I knew that it would be harder as a woman just because it was a man’s world.

女性去当消防员不是一件容易的事，因为这里是男人的世界。 

I think that men come into this line of work with and they’re given a certain amount of respect and expectations,

男性去当消防员一开始就受到了尊重和带着期望， 

and as a woman I feel like maybe we need to earn that.

但作为女人，我们只能去努力赢得别人的尊重， 

But, I have found that once I had it, it wasn’t so easy to lose it.

而一旦得到了，就不那么容易失去。 

My mom thought I had lost my mind. She thought I was crazy.

我母亲一开始认为我失了智，觉得我疯了。 

There’s never been a firefighter in our family, much less a woman firefighter.

我家里从没有出过消防员，更不用说女消防员了。 

So, this is the Nomex hood that we put on to protect our head.

所以这是保护头部的头套。 

We keep our boots already inside of our pants so that we can put our pants and boots on quickly.

我们会提前把裤脚塞在靴子里，这样就可以鞋子裤子一起穿。 

Coat, it’s several layers.

这是外套，有很多层。 

And last but not least, my helmet.

最后就是头盔， 

That’s it.

这就是我们的全套装备。 

I enjoy driving all of the equipment.

我喜欢开各类消防车， 

It’s probably the funniest thing there is to do on the Planet.

这大概是地球上最有意思的事情。 

They do a lot of recruiting of females and it just doesn’t always work out.

消防队也招募过很多女消防员，但并不是所有人都喜欢这个工作， 

I think it’s a misconception.

我觉得还是有一些误解。 

Maybe they’re not sure exactly what we do, it maybe it’s just not a career path that any woman and their family has ever taken.

可能她们不确定是否喜欢这个职业，可能她们家里从来没有出过消防员， 

They don’t perhaps know any women firefighters, you know, it could be any number of things.

她们不认识女消防员，有一大堆的理由。 

I think we have so much to contribute.

我认为我们做了很多贡献。 

I think we enhance and enrich the department and the job that’s being done.

我们加强和充实了整个部门和消防工作。 

We bring a different perspective. We approach situations from a completely different angle.

我们也带来了不同的视角。我们会从不同的视角来分析问题。 

Anytime you’ve got six people in a room, just having a different perspective could make a difference in the outcome of the situation.

我们随时都有6个人在房间里待命，而不同的视角可以带来完全不一样的结果。