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Career choices

职业选择

What do you want to be when you grow up?

你长大后想做什么？

There are so many things that you can be.

你可以做很多事情。

You might want to work in the field of law.

你可能想在法律领域工作。

You could be a police officer.

你可以当警察。

You could be a judge or a lawyer.

你可以是法官或律师。

Maybe you’d like to work in the food industry.

也许你想在食品行业工作。

You could be a cook or a waitress.

你可以是厨师或服务员。

You might want to manage a hotel dining room.

你可能想管理一个酒店餐厅。

Perhaps you would want to do room service in a hotel.

也许你想在酒店做客房服务。

You could be a chef and make fancy meals for people.

你可以当厨师，为人们做美味的饭菜。

Maybe show business is what you’d like to be involved in.

也许你想参与演艺事业。

You could act in television shows or movies.

你可以在电视节目或电影中表演。

You could sing or play an instrument in a band.

你可以在乐队里唱歌或演奏乐器。

If you like to help people, you could go into medicine.

如果你想帮助别人，你可以从事医学。

You could be a doctor or a nurse.

你可以是医生或护士。

You might be a surgeon and operate on people.

你可能是一名外科医生，为人们做手术。

There are other jobs in the field of medicine too.

医学领域也有其他工作。

You could be an x-ray technician or a lab technician.

你可以是x光技师或实验室技师。

It takes a lot of education to be a doctor.

成为一名医生需要很多教育。

Maybe you would rather be a teacher.

也许你更愿意当老师。

You could teach in a primary school or a high school.

你可以在小学或高中教书。

If you don’t want to work with children, you could become a professor at a university.

如果你不想从事和孩子相关的工作，你可以成为大学的教授。

There are hundreds of other jobs to choose from too.

还有数百种其他工作可供选择。

You might want to fix cars or work in a store.

你可能想修理汽车或在商店工作。

You could be a dentist or a veterinarian.

你可以是牙医或兽医。

You could be a janitor or a zookeeper.

你可以当看门人或动物园管理员。

There are so many jobs that I just can’t name them all.

工作太多了，我无法一一说出。

Maybe you’d like to be a minister or an organist at a church.

也许你想在教堂当牧师或风琴手。

You could be a babysitter or a shop clerk.

你可以当保姆或店员。

You might be interested in being an astronaut or a baker.

你可能对成为宇航员或面包师感兴趣。

You could work in a bank or at a shop.

你可以在银行或商店工作。

You could work on a construction crew and build roads and houses.

你可以成为一名建筑工人，建造道路和房屋。

Maybe you’d rather decorate the houses, so you’d become an interior decorator.

也许你更愿意装饰房子，所以你会成为一名室内设计师。

You could cut hair or be a driving instructor.

你可以当理发师给人剪头发或当驾驶教练。

The list is endless.

这个列表是无穷无尽的。

There are even jobs that you may never have heard about.

甚至有些工作你可能从未听说过。

The choice is yours.

这是你的选择。

You just choose whatever you want to be and do your best to become that.

你只需选择你想成为的任何人，并尽你最大的努力成为那个人。

I could go on forever . . . you could work in a library.

我可以一直说下去...你可以在图书馆工作。

You could be a factory worker or a fisherman.

你可以是工厂工人或渔夫。

You could make clothes or build bridges.

你可以做衣服或者建桥。

You could wash windows or be a bricklayer.

你可以洗窗户，也可以当砖匠。

The possibilities are endless.

可能性是无限的。

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