实战口语情景对话 第242期:Austria 奥地利

 Todd: So, you're in law school, Travis. 

托德：特拉维斯，你上的是法学院。

Travis: Yes, I'm in law school. 

特拉维斯：对，我是一名法学院的学生。

Todd: Normally¹, how do you get a job after you finish law school? 

托德：一般来说，你从法学院毕业以后要怎么找工作呢？

Travis: Well, the law school that I'm at is considered to be a top-tier law school, and so my law school has a lot of power to get companies to actually come to my law school, and interview with students at the school, and the way my law school does it is every year, in the summer, the last week of summer before school starts, they get about 700 firms to come for about one week and interview students on campus² and it's called early interview week so during this early interview week, basically³ the school rents out an entire hotel and every firm will be there for about one day, so, it's like every day you have about 150, 200 firms on any particular day. Each with their own room in the hotel, and so the students will wait in a common area and when it's their time to interview they'll go to a hotel room and knock on the door and go inside and interview with that firm and they'll get maybe 20 or 30 minutes with that firm, and then afterwards if the firm likes them the firm might actually invite them to go to lunch or to go to a dinner that night and they'll be selected so maybe every day, a firm will interview as many as 50 candidates⁴, but only invite maybe 5 or 6 of them to go out to dinner with them that night, so this lasts about 4 or 5 days, and at the end of that, other than being really tired, hopefully you've gotten a couple of job offers, well not job offers, but basically an offer to come back to a second interview, which will hopefully, eventually lead to a job offer. So, for the students it's quite difficult. Over the course of a week some students will interview with as many as 25 firms, over a four or five day period, so they can be interviewing anywhere from five to as many as ten firms in a single day. So if you're interviewing 10 firms in a singe⁵ day, each 30 minutes long, you're going to be there a long time. At least 5 or 6 hours of straight interviewing, going from one room to the next room to the next room, to the next room to interview with a firm. 

特拉维斯：嗯，我念的法学院被认为是一流的法学院，我们学院的力量很大，能让许多公司来学院招聘，学生可以在学校里进行面试，我们学院每年都会有这种招聘活动，通常是在夏季，夏季学校开学前的最后一个礼拜，一周内大约会有700家公司来学校面试，这被称为提前面试周，所以在提前面试周，学校会出租整间旅馆，每家公司都会在那里待上一天的时间，这意味着每天大约有150到200家公司。每家公司都在旅馆内拥有各自的房间，学生会在公共区域里等待，轮到他们进行面试时，就走到旅馆房间前敲下门，然后进去进行面试，面试大概会进行20到30分钟的时间，之后如果那家公司对他们感兴趣，那公司可能会邀请他们去吃午餐或是吃晚餐，这样他们面试成功的可能性就非常大，每家公司大概一天最多面试50名学生，不过可能只会邀请5至6名学生去吃晚餐，这种面试会持续4到5天的时间，最后，除了会感到非常累以外，你可能还会收到一些工作邀请，嗯，不能说是工作邀请，应该是邀请你去进行第二轮面试，这很有可能最终会成为工作邀请。所以，对学生来说这非常难。在一周的时间内，一些学生最多会面试25家公司，就在4到5天的时间里，所以他们一天最多会面试5到10家公司。所以如果你一天面试10家公司，每次30分钟，那你就要在那里待很长时间。至少是5到6个小时连续不断的面试进程，从一个房间到另一个房间再到另一个房间，不停地进行面试。

Todd: So it's pretty exhausting⁶. 

托德：这真令人疲惫不堪。

Travis: It's really exhausting and I'm not looking forward to it at all. 

特拉维斯：真的非常累人，我一点儿也不期待去进行面试。 

1 normally   

adv.正常地，通常地

参考例句：

• I normally do all my shopping on Saturdays.我通常在星期六买东西。
• My pulse beats normally.我脉搏正常。

2 campus   

n.大学校园，学校校园；大学　

参考例句：

• They spoke of the old days on the campus.他们谈起昔日的校园生活。
• The campus covers an area of twenty square kilometres.这个校园占地二十平方公里。

3 basically   

adv.基本上，从根本上说

参考例句：

• His heart is basically sound.他的心脏基本上健康。
• Basically I agree with your plan.我基本上同意你的计划。

4 candidates   

n.报考者( candidate的名词复数 )；申请求职者；攻读学位者；最后命运或结局如何已显然可见者

参考例句：

• Employers must consider all candidates impartially and without bias. 雇主必须公平而毫无成见地考虑所有求职者。
• one of the leading candidates for the presidency 总统职位的主要候选人之一

5 singe   

v.(轻微地)烧焦；烫焦；烤焦

参考例句：

• If the iron is too hot you'll singe that nightdress.如果熨斗过热，你会把睡衣烫焦。
• It is also important to singe knitted cloth to obtain a smooth surface.对针织物进行烧毛处理以获得光洁的表面也是很重要的。

6 exhausting   

a.疲倦的

参考例句：

• an exhausting day at work 工作得筋疲力尽的一天
• This exhausting work is enough to run everyone down. 这项费力的工作足以使人精疲力竭。