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Todd: So Greg, we're talking about controversial issues and one of the issues in your book isincome disparity. So, what do you think about minimum wage?
托德：格雷格，我們來談?wù)剛涫軤幾h的問題，你書中提到的其中一個(gè)問題是收入差距。你怎么看最低工資?
Greg: Minimum wage. Minimum wage I think is very important to have otherwise employersare going to take advantage of people; pay them too little. The society, society itself mustdecide what is the proper minimum wage and that in itself is an issue. What should it be?
格雷格：最低工資。我認(rèn)為制定最低工資標(biāo)準(zhǔn)非常重要，否則雇主就會(huì)占雇員的便宜;支付雇員過少的薪水。社會(huì)必須決定適當(dāng)?shù)淖畹凸べY標(biāo)準(zhǔn)，這是社會(huì)問題。應(yīng)該怎么做?
Todd: You know, actually I disagree. I am actually against a minimum wage. I think that youknow, basically all markets find equilibrium and that the wage goes too low people just won'tdo the job, and so basically, if you don't have a minimum wage eventually the society willcome to a wage where people fell comfortable doing that work. That basically things will workout.
托德：我并不同意你的觀點(diǎn)。我反對制定最低工資。我認(rèn)為所有市場都在尋找平衡，如果工資太低，那人們就不會(huì)去做那份工作，基本上來說，如果沒有最低工資標(biāo)準(zhǔn)，那最終工資會(huì)達(dá)到人們滿意的水平?；旧蟻碚f事情會(huì)順利解決的。
Greg: In theory maybe you're right, but in reality you're really wrong. I mean take a look atsome of these countries around the world where there are sweat shops, where you havechildren, cause there are no rules regulating labor, and you have children who have never beeneducated, spend their entire lives working almost like slaves in unhealthy conditions. That'swhat happens when there are no rules to protect workers.
格雷格：從理論上說，你是對的，不過實(shí)際上，你的想法是錯(cuò)的。看看世界上那些有血汗工廠、雇童工的國家，因?yàn)檫@些國家沒有規(guī)范勞動(dòng)力的規(guī)定，一些孩子從來沒有接受過教育，他們一直像奴隸一樣在不健康的環(huán)境下工作。因?yàn)闆]有保護(hù)工人的規(guī)定，情況就會(huì)演變成這樣。
Todd: But I think that's somewhat true but you said the key word that they're not educated. Ithink the problem there is that people aren't educated and that's what leads the abjectpoverty that they might do a job like that. So don't you think that if people were educatedmore, they would not be willing to work such meaningless jobs, such jobs that pay so little.
托德：從某種程度上來說可能是這樣，不過你剛才的關(guān)鍵詞是沒有受過教育。我認(rèn)為問題是這些人沒有接受過教育，這是導(dǎo)致赤貧境地的原因，因?yàn)檫@樣他們才會(huì)去做那種工作。你不認(rèn)為如果人們受教育程度更高，他們是不會(huì)愿意去做那種沒有意義、工資那么少的工作的。
Greg: Many of those people, those children, who are working like slaves, don't have a chance foran education and often maybe they're being exploited, not always but sometimes, by peoplewho've had good education.
格雷格：這些人、這些兒童中的很多人，他們像奴隸一樣工作是因?yàn)樗麄儧]有機(jī)會(huì)接受教育，雖然不是通常情況，不過一般來說剝削他們的是受過良好教育的人。
Todd: Right.
托德：對。
Greg: Take a child in some very poor country has to work just to find food.
格雷格：一些極度貧窮國家的孩子只有工作，才有吃的東西。
Todd: So basically, you're saying they should have a living wage. That they should makeenough money that they can have a decent standard of living.
托德：你的意思是他們應(yīng)該有生活保障。他們要掙足夠的錢，這樣他們才能維持像樣的生活標(biāo)準(zhǔn)。
Greg: Everybody should have a decent standard of living I believe.
格雷格：我認(rèn)為所有人都應(yīng)該有像樣的生活標(biāo)準(zhǔn)。
Todd: I just think that it's really hard to arbitrarily set a price. I mean that number is alwaysgoing to go up and down. That even a minimum wage is somewhat skews the reality that ifyou just let markets take their natural course eventually people won't be willing to work.
托德：我只是覺得很難去隨意設(shè)定價(jià)格水平。因?yàn)閮r(jià)格經(jīng)常上下波動(dòng)。甚至最低工資可能會(huì)扭曲現(xiàn)實(shí)，如果讓市場順其自然地發(fā)展，那最終人們就不愿意去工作了。
Greg: It doesn't work that way because when you just have a complete free market, you havecorrupt people who take advantage of other people.
格雷格：事態(tài)不會(huì)這么發(fā)展，因?yàn)楫?dāng)自由市場完備時(shí)，會(huì)有腐敗的人去利用其他人。
Todd: Well, you know, that actually I do agree with but I think ... I do believe in a free marketsbut one thing that is true is that free markets cannot work where's there's corruption. I doagree with that. So we agree about something.
托德：我同意這個(gè)觀點(diǎn)，我相信自由市場，不過我認(rèn)為如果存在腐敗，那自由市場就無法運(yùn)作。我同意這個(gè)觀點(diǎn)。我們終于達(dá)成一致觀點(diǎn)了。
Greg: Yes. Good thing.
格雷格：對。這是好事。
英語情景對話口語練習(xí)2
Todd: So Greg in the last one we were talking about minimum wage, and this is one of thetopics in your book and it's about income disparity. One of the chapters is about incomedisparity. Now the opposite would be should there the a salary cap, which would mean thatbasically you could only earn so much, like let's say you can only earn five million dollars, tenmillion dollars. Nobody could earn more than that. What do you think about that concept?
托德：格雷格，上期我們談?wù)摿俗畹凸べY，你書中提到的一個(gè)問題是收入差距。你書中有一章專門講述了收入差距。今天我們要談的是相反的話題，應(yīng)該設(shè)定工資上限嗎?工資上限是指限定人們只能掙這么多錢，假設(shè)說只能掙500萬美元或1000萬美元。沒有人的工資能超過這個(gè)限定。你怎么看這個(gè)概念?
Greg: I personally agree with a salary cap. I'm not sure how much it should be, but definitelythe discrepancy in wages is way to great. There's too many people who have to ... a husbandand a wife work hard forty hours or more, both of them. They're barely, barely getting by, andthen you got all these other people who are just buying Rolls-Royce cars and Mercedes, andcountry clubs and it's just not fair.
格雷格：我個(gè)人同意設(shè)定工資上限。我不能確定限額應(yīng)該設(shè)定多少，但是我認(rèn)為工資差異這一問題太嚴(yán)重了。有許多人……有的家庭夫妻兩人可能都要工作40個(gè)小時(shí)以上。這樣他們還只是勉強(qiáng)糊口而已，可是也有人能買得起勞斯萊斯和奔馳，去鄉(xiāng)村俱樂部享樂，這太不公平了。
Todd: But, well, for one, though I mean, Mercedes and Rolls-Royce and those are products thatprovide jobs, so I would argue with that. Actually, as you can probably tell, I'm against theidea mainly because, you know, I think that hurts innovation. You know, you look at peoplelike the CEO of a very powerful internet company or software company, and you know, takegoogle for example, I'm sure that they make more than ten million, but they're service is usedso much around the world, that they should get that money, and if people couldn't ... hang on... if people couldn't get ... couldn't earn that salary then maybe they wouldn't have the samemotivation and drive to be successful and that people would lose out as a result.
托德：首先，奔馳和勞斯萊斯是產(chǎn)品，這些產(chǎn)品會(huì)提供工作崗位，所以對這個(gè)問題持不同看法。實(shí)際上，我并不同意這個(gè)觀點(diǎn)，因?yàn)槲艺J(rèn)為工資上限會(huì)損害創(chuàng)新性。你看，像強(qiáng)大的互聯(lián)網(wǎng)公司或軟件公司的首席執(zhí)行官，比如谷歌公司吧，我確定他們的工資超過1000萬美元，可是全世界都在使用他們的服務(wù)，他們應(yīng)該得到這筆工資，如果他們不能……等一下，讓我說完，如果他們不能掙到這么多錢，那他們可能不會(huì)這么有動(dòng)力，不會(huì)成功，他們最終可能會(huì)失敗。
Greg: I think that there's not proof to say that these people are making these products becausethey're making such tremendous amounts of money. What came first: the product and thenthey got the money in most cases. There's ... these people could be ... society can have allsorts of wonderful products and still have a fair income system, and I have nothing againstpeople becoming rich or making a good salary, a very good salary, but not such an incrediblegap. You have executives of some major international corporations that are making more moneythan millions of people in the world make combined. The opposite side of not having a cap isthat you have people who are making too little, and those people are also working hard. Thosepeople deserve validation. Those people deserve a good life standard which millions of peopleacross the world are not having.
格雷格：我認(rèn)為沒有證據(jù)表明因?yàn)樗麄儝甑腻X很多，就說明是他們制造了這些產(chǎn)品。想一下，是先有的產(chǎn)品還是他們大部分情況下先掙到了錢。這些人……這個(gè)社會(huì)既可以有各種出色的產(chǎn)品，也可以有公平的工資體系，我并不反對人們變得富有，也不反對他們有不錯(cuò)的收入，我反對的是如此大的工資差距。主要互聯(lián)網(wǎng)公司執(zhí)行官的工資比世界上數(shù)百萬人的工資總合還要多。沒有工資上限就會(huì)造成有的人工作非常努力，可是掙得特別少。而這些人值得獲得認(rèn)可。這些人值得擁有好的生活標(biāo)準(zhǔn)，可是世界上數(shù)百萬人都享受不到這種生活標(biāo)準(zhǔn)。
Todd: Well, I think ... well, I agree with you about that. I agree with you about that. Thatthere's people who work hard and that they're under compensated, but ... and they're a lot ofpeople that get grossly overpaid but I think that's just a problem of management and that insome cases so people do deserve millions and millions, perhaps billions of dollars if they havereally contributed to the product or the outcome. So, basically we're gonna disagree on thisone.
托德：我認(rèn)為……這方面我同意你的觀點(diǎn)。我同意你的看法。有些人工作努力，可是掙的很少，也有很多人收入過高，不過我認(rèn)為這只是管理問題，在某些情況下，如果有人對產(chǎn)品或成果的貢獻(xiàn)很大，那他們就值得獲得數(shù)百萬美元甚至數(shù)十億美元的收入。所以基本上來說，我們兩人在這個(gè)問題上持不同看法。
Greg: Yeah.
格雷格：對。
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