Todd: OK, Deanne, so you are a translator?

托德：迪安妮，你是翻译对吧？

Todd: So, Eoin, I was hoping that you could introduce yourself and talk a little bit about your band.

托德：约恩，我希望你介绍一下自己和你的乐队。

Todd: So, Melissa, this week we’re talking about buying things. Now, in terms of shopping, are you one those people that are like a shop-a-holic? You buy things you don’t need?

托德：梅莉莎，这周我们来聊聊买东西。在购物方面，你算是购物狂吗？你会买那些你不需要的东西吗？

Todd: So Kate, if somebody had a month to spend in New Zealand where do you recommend they go and what do you recommend they do?

托德：凯特，如果有人打算用一个月的时间在新西兰旅游，那你会建议他们去哪游览或建议他们做什么？

Todd: So Greg in the last one we were talking about minimum wage, and this is one of the topics in your book and it’s about income disparity. One of the chapters is about income disparity. Now the opposite would be should there the a salary cap, which would mean that basically you could only earn so much, like let’s say you can only earn five million dollars, ten million dollars. Nobody could earn more than that. What do you think about that concept?

托德：格雷格，上期我们谈论了最低工资，你书中提到的一个问题是收入差距。你书中有一章专门讲述了收入差距。今天我们要谈的是相反的话题，应该设定工资上限吗？工资上限是指限定人们只能挣这么多钱，假设说只能挣500万美元或1000万美元。没有人的工资能超过这个限定。你怎么看这个概念？

Todd: So Alan you must be happy. You have hockey again in Canada.

托德：艾伦，你一定很高兴。加拿大冰球比赛回归了。

Todd: So, Lucinda, I met your boyfriend, Kwame, he’s a nice guy.

托德：露辛达，我遇到你男朋友夸梅了，他人不错。

Todd: So, Shona, you talked about shopping today. You bought some food and you bought some furniture. Are you a big shopping fan?

托德：夏娜，你今天去购物了。你买了食物还有家具。你很喜欢购物吗？

Tom: Are you a teacher here?

汤姆：你是这里的老师吗？

I’m an English teacher in Japan and when I first came here I didn’t really have very much money so I found things quite expensive and I went out looking for cheap bargains. I came across a shop and it called the 100 Yen shop. It’s absolutely fantastic. 100 Yen is about 50 p, 50 pence that is. I think that’s about 1 dollar, and you go in there and everything is 100 yen. You can buy all sorts of things in a 100 yen shop. You can buy food. You can buy things for your house, things for your bathroom, your kitchen. You can buy ornaments and stationary and things like shampoo. I really, really like to get a bargain and when I go in and I know that I’ve found something and it’s worth buying, I really, really get excited about it, and it sends shivers down my spine. We have a shop in Britain and it’s quite similar to the 100 yen shop. It’s called Pound Land and so everything in it is 1 pound. Not everything is a real bargain.

我在日本当英语老师，我第一次来这里的时候，我没有太多钱，所以我觉得东西非常贵，于是我就去四处寻找便宜的东西，我偶然发现一家商店，名为100日元店。那简直太棒了。100日元大概是50便士。我想100日元大概是1美元，走进店里你会发现店内的所有商品都只要100日元。你可以在100日元店买到各种东西。你可以在那里买到食物，也可以买到你的房子需要的东西，买到浴室、厨房里需要用到的东西。你还可以买到装饰品、文具和洗发水这样的东西。我真的很想能买到便宜货，而我走进这家店以后发现，我确实找到了一些值得买的东西，我真的对此感到非常兴奋，这让我非常激动。我们英国有一种类似于100日元店的商店。商店名为一磅店，顾名思义，这家店里的商品都只要1英镑。但并不是所有东西都很划算。