【英语时差8,16】英国人谈工资-中

M:OK Derm, thanks very much for coming along today and I'm sorry if we've upset you. Diarmuid: No no I'm fine, I'm fine. But I'm still not telling you. Ok bye bye. W:Thank you, thank you for joining us. M:See you. Diarmuid: Bye bye. M:Do you think we should ask another person? w:I think we should. Just to make sure that we have done reliable¹ research. M:Exactly, it needs to be reliable. Ok, well the next person that we've got coming in is our colleague² Finn, Finn Aberdein. Here he is. W:Oh Finn. Thank you for coming. Finn: Hello, hello. Thank you for having me. W:We are friends aren't we Finn? Finn: We are indeed. M: Could I ask you a question? Finn: Please do Li. W:How much do you earn? Finn: How much do I earn?! Oh I don't know if I can tell you that. I don't know if I can tell everyone in China that either. M: We are friends aren't we? M: We're really good friends, so... Finn: But we do the same job and if one of us earns more then I might be a bit upset.

1 reliable   

adj.可信赖的；可靠的

参考例句：

• I'm afraid the information is not reliable.恐怕消息不可靠。
• Do you think she's reliable?你看她这个人可靠吗？

2 colleague   

n.同僚，同事

参考例句：

• He is a colleague of mine.他是我的同事。
• The professor paid a return visit to his American colleague.教授回访了他的美国同事。