中英文本

Personal interview number two:
接受参访的第二人：
Blake Mitchamore worked for a logistics company for the past two years, scheduling and providing customer service to clients.
布莱克·米查莫尔在一家物流公司工作了两年，为客户做安排，并给他们提供服务[_j.fOvVP-tyXt+。
He moved with the job to Moore, Okla., at the beginning of the year.
今年年初，他搬到了俄克拉荷马州的摩尔市，还是做着这份工作-=Fs+Bd|a26。
At the end of March he figured out he was getting fired when he noticed the company had cashed out his vacation pay.
三月底，他发现公司兑现了他的假日津贴，他才知道自己遭到了解雇JFIAx@zNw%。
"I was not expecting it," says the 38-year-old, who's been in the transportation business for 15 years.
现年38岁的他，已经在运输行业工作了15年，
"It's what I've always done." Logistics was a high-growth sector with perennial worker shortages, so the pay was good, he says.
他说：“我是没有想到，这是我一直在做的工作3ZSBC3uP;qbpj。”物流业是一个高速增长的行业，长期以来缺乏工作者，所以工资很高DfXFk@5ZrFd0-!GZ。”
One of the anomalies of the recent expansion was that workers without college degrees actually saw a faster pace of wage gains than recent graduates.
最近出现扩张的一个反常现象是，没有大学文凭的工人实际上比应届毕业生的工资增长速度更快IFY.,!tNYU。
"I've done fairly well for myself without a degree," Mitchamore says. He says he's considered going back to school but isn't certain he'd earn back the investment.
米查莫尔说：“我没学位，但我自己干得还不错5+rH964t(90fNnpI5^。”他说他已经考虑重返校园，但不确定是否能收回投资bu#)u!QYvvyaz。

He filed for unemployment, but his estimated entitlement came back at $0.
他申请失业保障，但他估计得不到赔偿金C;AH1#v9+LWg[。
He can't figure out why, since no one at the inundated state benefits office picks up the phone.
他不明白其原因，因为不胜负荷的州福利办公室没有人接听电话lWIw7slAa_fG。
So he's living off some severance and the federal government's $1,200 stimulus check.
所以，他靠遣散费和联邦政府1200美元的经济刺激项目为生NQX-9UvQVf2%9。
Without jobless benefits, "things can only go on so long like this," he says.
他说，没有失业救济，“情况只能这样持续这么久”GoD~Kfp|mSiX@b_p。
Mitchamore says he's desperate to get back to work, despite the health risk: "I would be prepared to go back—lockdown or not—because I have to."
米查莫尔表示，尽管存在健康风险，但他还是很渴望重返工作岗位，“我会准备好重返工作岗位，处于隔离状态也好，不隔离也好，因为我必须这样做F=cA5*^UJ1Wt9o。”
"I felt like I was on my way to making it," says Maxwell Rogan, about a month after being laid off over a Zoom call.
“我觉得自己已经走上了成功之路，”马克斯韦尔·罗根说x@P;;=-jNc|wn)VWuR)。他大约一个月，因为一通电话而遭到解雇WXPwmQ9PYxEcfaad75。
The 26-year-old Brooklyn, N.Y., resident had imagined he'd grow along with his company,
这位26岁的纽约布鲁克林居民曾设想，自己会和公司一起成长Tgu7Dj@gNz7yb#。
a startup that sold staffing software to restaurants, eventually gaining equity, "I saw myself becoming a manager in six months."
这是一家初创公司，向餐馆出售员工软件，最终获得股权，“我预见自己在六个月后成为一名经理I6URVz6gLl。”

重点讲解

1.at the beginning of 处于…的开端；起初

At the beginning of liberation, the factory was an awful mess.

解放初，这个工厂是个烂摊子VyxZ^7|gdAz=Q。

2.figure out 想出；解决

No one could figure out how he got to be so wealthy.

谁也不知道他怎么会变得如此富有vXBHGF7MgX。

3.along with 与……一起；伴随

I'll go along with you.

我将随同你一起去P#Dg5%_DhSpoO。