A menial job.

一份瑣碎的工作。

Like yours.

就像你的一樣。

Well, thank you for noticing.

謝謝你注意到這一點。

I'm menial employee of the month.

我是本月的小職員。

Do you have a particular field in mind?

你是否有特定的領域？

I do.

我有。

For thousands of years, the lowest classes of the human race have spent their lives laboring to erect monuments under the lash of their betters, until finally they dropped down and became one with the dust through which they trudged.

幾千年來，人類最底層的人在上層人的鞭打下，終其一生都在為樹立豐碑而努力，直到最後他們倒下，與他們跋涉過的塵土融為一體。

Do you have anything like that?

你有類似的工作嗎？

No.

沒有。

Shouldn't you check your database?

你不應該確認一下你的數據庫嗎？

No.

不用。

You didn't really type.

你根本沒打字。

I didn't really have to.

我其實沒必要打。

So how about construction?

那麼建築業如何？

Oh, that would be good.

哦，那就太好了。

Sawing, hammering, eating out of a lunch pail as my working class fellows and I sit perched precariously on a girder high above the metropolis.

我和我的工人階級夥伴們坐在大都市高空的大梁上岌岌可危地鋸木頭、敲錘子、吃午餐桶裡的飯。

No, no. This is putting up sheetrock at a housing project in Rosemead.

不，不這是在羅斯米德的一個住房項目中鋪設石膏板。

I could do that.

我可以做到。

Oh.

哦。

One question.

有一個問題。

Yes?

什麼事？

What's sheetrock?

什麼是石膏板？

Moving on.

繼續。

How about doing deliveries for a florist?

為花店送貨如何？

That seems acceptable.

這似乎可以接受。

Do you have your own car?

你有自己的車嗎？

I don't drive.

我不開車。

Of course you don't.

你當然不開。

Mr. Cooper, let me just ask you a question.

庫珀先生，請允許我問你一個問題。

What was your last job?

你的上一份工作是什麼？

Senior theoretical particle physicist at Caltech focusing on M-theory, or in layman's terms, string theory.

加州理工學院資深理論粒子物理學家，主要研究 M 理論，通俗地說就是弦理論。

I see.

我明白了。

Just give me a second.

給等我下。

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