Kate: Hi, Amy. Are you OK? Amy: Yes. I just need to take a break from work. My job is so hard! My boss hired a new girl and asked me to train her.
Kate: What's wrong with that?
Amy: She does everything wrong! I have to tell her the same things again and again.
Kate: Oh no. Well, at least you aren't training soldiers.
Amy: True. That would be hard. And something else happened today!
Kate: What happened?
Amy: An order of clothes arrived, and there were so many mistakes! I have to fix the problem and make another order.
Kate: That sounds hard. Well, at least you aren't an engineer. I just read a story in the newspaper. A city has some major problems with their harbor. They hired an engineer, and he has to fix the problems.
Amy: That's a hard job!
Kate: Yes, and it's harder than yours. You can fix your problem easier than the engineer can fix the city's.
Amy: Kate, I just want to talk about my job. Why are you talking about other people's jobs?
Kate: I'm trying to help. Some people have really hard jobs. When you think about their jobs, aren't you thankful for your job?
Amy: I don't want to be thankful. I want to complain! Sorry, I shouldn't complain. I might have a hard job, but it's not the hardest job.
Kate: That's right!
Amy: I should be thankful for people with hard jobs.
Kate: Their hard work improves our lives!
Amy: True.
凱特：嗨，愛咪，妳還好嗎？
愛咪：還好，我只是需要暫時擺脫我的工作休息一下而已。我的工作好困難、好辛苦！我的老闆雇用了一個新人，然後要我訓練她。
凱特：這樣有什麼問題？
愛咪：她什麼事都做不好！同樣的事情我都得一說再說。
凱特：真糟糕。不過，至少妳不是在訓練士兵。
愛咪：是沒錯，訓練士兵一定很困難。今天還發生了一件事情！
凱特：什麼事？
愛咪：廠商送來了之前訂的一批衣服，很多衣服的尺寸都搞錯了，我只好再另外訂一批貨。
凱特：聽起來真不容易。不過，至少妳不是工程師。我剛在報紙上讀到一篇文章，提到一座城市的港口出現了嚴重的問題。他們雇用了一名工程師，他得解決那些問題。
愛咪：那工作真是太難了！
凱特：沒錯，而且比妳的工作還困難。比起那名工程師面臨的問題，妳的問題容易解決得多了。
愛咪：凱特，我只想談談我自己的工作，妳為什麼一直提起別人的工作？
凱特：我想幫妳啊。有些人面對的工作非常困難，一旦想到那些人的工作，妳難道不會對自己的工作覺得感恩嗎？
愛咪：我不要覺得感恩，我要發牢騷！真抱歉，我不該埋怨的。我的工作也許不容易，可是絕對不是最困難的工作。
凱特：沒錯！
愛咪：我該感謝那些從事困難工作的人。
凱特：他們困難的工作讓我們的生活得到了改善。
愛咪：的確。
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