M: Well, I see from your resume, Miss Green, that you studied at the University College. How did you find there?
男:格林小姐,我从你的简历上看到,你在大学学院学习过。你觉得这个地方怎么样?
W: I had a great time. The teaching there was good and I made a lot of friends. The psychology department was a great place to be.
女:我在那里度过了一段美好时光。那里的教学出色,我也交了很多朋友。心理学系是一个很棒的地方。
M: How come you chose psychology?
男:你为什么选择心理学?
W: Well, at first I didn't have any clear idea of what I wanted to do after university. I guess I've just always been interested in people and the way they act.
女:起初,我对大学毕业后想做什么没有一个明确的概念。我想我一直对人及其行为方式感兴趣。
W: I wanted to know why people think and act the way they do. It's a fascinating area.
女:我想知道人们为什么会这样思考和行动。这是一个很吸引人的区域。
M: And what was the course like?
男:这门课是什么样的?
W: Good. The teachers were all really nice and they had the special approach to teaching.
女:很好。老师们都很好,他们有特殊的教学方法。
W: You know they didn't just give us lectures and tell us to read books like they might do in some more traditional places.
女:你知道,他们不像其他比较传统的地方的老师一样,只给我们讲课,或者让我们读书。
W: The whole course was based on the problem-solving approach. You know they described a paiticular situation to us and we discuss what might happen.
女:整个课程都基于解决问题的方法。你知道,他们向我们描述一种情况,我们讨论可能发生的事情。
W: And after that we do some reading and see if it confirmed our own ideas. That's what I liked best—the really practical orientation of the course.
女:在那之后我们做一些阅读,看看它是否证实了我们自己的想法。这就是我最喜欢的:课程的实用方向。
W: I learnt very well with that style. So for me, it was just great.
女:通过这种方式我学得很好。所以对我来说,这太棒了。
M: I see from your resume that you graduated about four years ago and after that... let me see...
男:我从你的简历上看到你四年前毕业后……让我看看…
W: I got a job with the Department of Employment. It was only a temporary thing for about five months. I was a researcher in the department.
女:我在劳工部找到了一份工作。这只是暂时的,大约五个月。我是这个部门的研究员。
W: We design a survey, go out to the factories, and ask all the questions to the workers and the management, then go back to the office, analyze all the data and produce a report.
女:我们设计调查,去工厂向工人和管理人员询问所有的问题,然后回到办公室,分析所有的数据并生成一份报告。
W: It was quite interesting and I guessed the psychology course at college helped me a lot.
女:这很有趣,我猜大学的心理学课程对我很有帮助。