Name: 個人生活。 第4集 | BBC Learning English。 (Private Lives. Part 4. | BBC Learning English.)
Uploaded: 2026-02-26T12:58:14.000Z
Duration: 12 min 39 s

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When I spoke to my mother about joining the police service, she was dead set against it because of the fact that I'm female and black and because of all the negative publicity that the police had had in her era when she actually came to the country.

當我跟我媽媽說我要加入警察服務時，她極力反對，因為我是女性又是黑人，而且在她剛來這個國家那個時代，警察有很多負面公眾宣傳。

So she was totally dead set against me joining in private lives.

所以她完全反對我加入，尤其是私人生活的部分。

Angela is 29 years old and she was born and brought up in Leeds, a large city in the north of England.

Angela 今年 29 歲，她在英國北部的 Leeds 這個大城市出生長大。

Angela is a police officer and she has special responsibility for recruiting young people from ethnic minorities who are interested in a career in the police service.

Angela 是一位警官，她特別負責招募對警察服務事業有興趣的少數族裔年輕人。

During the programme, we'll hear Angela talk about where she lives and what she enjoys doing on a typical night in and a typical night out.

在這個節目中，我們會聽 Angela 聊聊她住的地方，以及她一般居家夜晚和外出夜晚喜歡做些什麼。

She also talks about her family and she describes how she thinks being a police officer has changed her over the years.

她也會聊聊她的家庭，並描述她覺得成為一名警官這些年來如何改變了她。

First, we learn a little about Angela's background and her childhood in a multicultural suburb of Leeds.

首先，我們要稍微瞭解一下 Angela 的背景和她在 Leeds 這個多元文化郊區的童年。

My parents came to England in the 1960s, early 1960s, from Jamaica and I remember living in the Harehills area of Leeds, which I really enjoyed as a child because of the fact that I distinctly remember that on my left there were neighbours who were Irish and then from there we had people that were Sikh, Hindu, Pakistani, African, Caribbean, all in this long street.

我的父母在 1960 年代，也就是 1960 年代初期，從牙買加來到英國，我記得我們住在 Leeds 的 Harehills 區，我小時候很喜歡那裡，因為我清楚記得左邊的鄰居是愛爾蘭人，然後接著有錫克教徒、印度教徒、巴基斯坦人、非洲人、加勒比人，都在這條長長的街道上。

I remember at school it was quite a multicultural environment, the fact that I had friends from different backgrounds and different walks of life and for me I have really happy childhood memories.

我記得在學校，那是一個相當多元文化的環境，我有很多來自不同背景、不同生活圈的朋友，對我來說，我有很多快樂的童年回憶。

It wasn't until really I started working where I felt like I was in the minority.

直到我開始工作後，我才感覺自己是少數族裔。

Angela began her working life at Customs and Excise, a British government department which is responsible for collecting duty on imported goods.

Angela 的第一份工作是在 Customs and Excise，這是英國政府負責徵收進口商品關稅的部門。

For example, she had an administrative job and she was bored when she decided she wanted to become a police officer.

例如，她有一份行政工作，但她覺得很無聊，於是決定想成為一名警官。

Her mother tried to discourage her, fearing her daughter would face racial prejudice and sexual discrimination.

她母親試圖阻止她，擔心女兒會面臨種族歧視和性別歧視。

Angela wasn't put off, although the training was tough and she says she found it especially difficult since she was from an ethnic minority background.

Angela 並沒有是以卻步，儘管訓練很艱苦，她說由於自己是少數族裔背景，她覺得訓練尤其困難。

After training school, Angela became a foot patrol officer and her day to day duties included dealing with shoplifters, domestic incidents and road accidents.

訓練學校畢業後，Angela 成為一名巡邏警官，她的日常職責包括處理小偷、家庭糾紛和交通事故。

She worked in a different part of Leeds from where she was brought up and she explains why I would never ever work in the area that was brought up in, which is Leeds, in the Harehills area.

她在 Leeds 的一個不同區域工作，而不是她長大的地方，她解釋了為什麼我絕對不會在自己長大的地方工作，那就是 Leeds 的 Harehills 區。

Because of the fact that I do know a lot of people, that I went to school with, a lot of people who have been in trouble as well.

因為我認識很多人，包括我以前的同學，也有很多人曾經惹過麻煩。

And just from some of the comments that have been said when I've been out with my friends and Especially if somebody doesn't like somebody from the police force, then they're going to say negative things about you.

而且，當我和朋友出去時，聽到了一些評論，特別是如果有人不喜歡警察，他們就會說你的壞話。

And I've got to think of my family as well, who still live in that area, which is the most important thing to me, regardless of the job, really.

我也必須考慮我的家人，他們仍然住在那個區域，這對我來說是最重要的，無論工作如何。

So I would never, ever work in Leeds, where I was brought up.

所以，我絕對、絕對不會在自己長大的裡茲工作。

Angela is no longer a foot patrol officer, on the beat, on duty, walking the local area she was responsible for.

Angela 不再是巡邏警官，不再是走在街頭、執勤、巡視她負責的當地區域。

She enjoys her new role as a recruiting liaison officer and she's working very hard to attract young people from ethnic minority backgrounds into the police service.

她很享受她現在擔任招募聯絡官的新職務，並且正努力招募來自少數族裔背景的年輕人加入警察服務。

However, Angela is clear that her police work on the beat, some of it with people whose living conditions shocked her because they were so poor, made her a more confident, committed officer and a stronger person.

不過，Angela 清楚地表示，她在街頭的警察工作，其中有些是面對生活條件貧困到令她震驚的人們，這讓她成為一位更自信、更投入的警官，也讓她成為一個更堅強的人。

I was on the beat for six and a half years and initially when I first joined the police service, I was quite quiet, very reserved, surprisingly enough.

我在街頭工作了六年半，剛加入警察服務時，我其實很安靜，出乎意料地非常內向。

Yeah, just very sort of very quiet natured, really.

對，就是那種非常、非常安靜的個性。

And over the years it's helped me develop my confidence, develop the way I can communicate with people.

這些年來，它幫助我建立了自信，也發展了我與人溝通的方式。

I think that's quite important because there were quite a few times where initially where I thought, well, is this really the job for me?

我認為這很重要，因為一開始有好幾次我心想，這真的適合我嗎？

I'm glad that I stuck at it and it has sort of made me the person that I am today.

我很高興我堅持下來了，而且它塑造了我今天的樣子。

Police work often means irregular working hours or shifts, so keeping up with friends outside the police service can be difficult.

警察工作常意味著不固定的工時或輪班，所以要跟警察服務以外的朋友保持聯繫會很困難。

Also, not surprisingly, police officers tend to socialise together when they're not on duty and sometimes romantic relationships develop.

另外，毫不意外地，警官們在下班後也傾向於一起社交，有時候也會發展出戀情。

You will find that police officers, male and female, will actually get together.

你會發現，不論是男性或女性警官，都會在一起。

I think it's probably because they work quite closely, they work in similar shifts.

我認為這可能是因為他們工作很緊密，輪班時間也差不多。

Sometimes it's very difficult to form a relationship outside the job, especially if the other person doesn't understand the shift system.

有時候要發展一份工作以外的感情關係非常困難，特別是如果對方不瞭解輪班制度。

The disadvantage is that sometimes your whole life can revolve around the police service.

缺點是，有時候你整個生活都可能圍繞著警察服務打轉。

And I think you've got to be very, very careful that you're not sort of like isolating your other friends.

我覺得你必須非常、非常小心，不要讓自己有點像是疏遠了其他朋友。

I think it's very important to have friends outside the job as well as inside.

我認為在工作以外擁有朋友，跟在工作裡面擁有朋友一樣重要。

When Angela was a fairly new police officer, she met another probationer working the same shifts as her.

安潔拉剛成為警官不久時，她認識了一位跟她上相同輪班的菜鳥警官。

She says that because they were both in the same boat, they became good friends and then they started going out together.

她說，因為她們有著相同的處境，所以成了好朋友，然後就開始一起出去玩。

It was to be a significant relationship in her life.

這段關係對她的人生來說，意義重大。

I used to live with a police officer about a year and a half ago now.

我大概在一年前半的時候，跟一位警官住在一起。

Initially we were really good friends because of the Fact that we worked on the same shift from then on.

起初我們是很好的朋友，因為從那時候起，我們就上同一個班次。

Obviously romance blossomed and we became quite close and we finally lived together for quite a while.

很明顯地，戀情萌芽，我們變得相當親近，最後也同居了一段時間。

All in all we were together for five years.

總共算起來，我們在一起了五年。

However, we then decided it was time to go in different directions, which is fine really.

不過，後來我們覺得是時候分開走各自的路了，這其實也沒什麼。

Since then Angela has had more time to spend with her female friends and recently she even sold her furniture to pay for a holiday with a girlfriend.

從那之後，安潔拉就有更多時間跟她的女性朋友相處，最近她甚至賣掉傢俱來支付和一位女伴去度假的費用。

They went to Tenerife in the Canary Islands which is a popular destination for British holidaymakers.

她們去了加那利群島的特內裡費島，那裡是英國度假客的熱門目的地。

Angela says it's a little like Blackpool.

安潔拉說，那裡有點像布萊克浦。

Blackpool is a hugely popular seaside resort on the north west coast of England with high tech roller coaster rides and discos.

布萊克浦是英格蘭西北海岸一個非常受歡迎的海濱度假勝地，有高科技的雲霄飛車和迪斯可舞廳。

The last time I went on holiday was last April.

I sold all my furniture in my house and went to Tenerife with my girlfriend.

我賣掉了家裡所有的傢俱，和我女朋友去了特內裡費島。

It's a holiday that I've never been away with female friend before.

這是第一次我和女性朋友一起去度假。

And it was something that I always wanted to do but never had the opportunity.

這是我一直想做但從來沒有機會做的事。

Tenerife, touristy place, a bit like sunny Blackpool in England.

特內裡費島是個觀光勝地，有點像英格蘭陽光普照的布萊克浦。

Although I enjoyed it, it's something that I would never do again.

雖然我很享受，但這是我再也不會做的事了。

It was somewhere I would never ever go again.

But it was something that I had to do then, so I did.

但當時我必須這麼做，所以我做了。

The last time I went was when I was seven.

And although quite a lot of my family have moved away from Jamaica and now live in England, Canada and America, there's still some family left there.

雖然我很多家人都搬離了牙買加，現在住在英國、加拿大和美國，但那裡還是有一些家人。

And plus I'd like to see where my roots are, really, where my parents are from.

而且我真的很想看看我的根在哪裡，我的父母是從哪裡來的。

A trip to Jamaica is one of Angela's long term ambitions.

去牙買加旅行是安潔拉長期的目標之一。

This year she can't afford a holiday so she plans to visit friends in other parts of Britain.

今年她負擔不起度假，所以她計畫去英國其他地方探訪朋友。

Driving her Jeep like car which her friends have nicknamed Monster Truck.

駕駛著她被朋友暱稱為「怪獸卡車」的吉普車。

On the cassette player as Angela drives she she'll play a cover version of a song called I Will Survive.

在卡帶播放器裡，安潔拉開車時會播放一首名為「我會活下去」的翻唱歌曲。

Because she's still adjusting to life as a single young woman again, the lyrics have special meaning for her.

因為她還在適應重新成為單身年輕女性的生活，歌詞對她有特別的意義。

At the moment I'm continuously playing the Old Glory Gaynor hit I Will Survive.

目前我一直在聽蓋娜的經典老歌「我會活下去」。

It's a new version by a soul singer called Shantae Savage which I play over and over again.

這是靈魂歌手 Shantae Savage 的新版本，我一直重複聽。

For me, I just love that song because it says everything.

對我來說，我就是喜歡這首歌，因為它說明瞭一切。

The fact that this woman has obviously gone through a bad time, a bad relationship, but

這位女性顯然經歷了一段糟糕的時光、一段糟糕的感情，但

she's saying, despite that I've come up on top, I will survive and I don't really need you anymore.

她說，儘管如此，我還是挺過來了，我會活下去，而且我真的不再需要你了。

Angela's recently moved house and according to her friends, she's made an unusual choice for an energetic, outgoing young person.

安潔拉最近搬家了，據她的朋友說，她為一個精力充沛、外向的年輕人做了一個不尋常的選擇。

I live just outside of Wakefield which is called the Hall Green area and I live in a two bedroom bungalow with a front and rear garden, two bedrooms, a dining room, living room, kitchen and bathroom.

我住在韋克菲爾德外面一個叫做 Hall Green 的地區，我住在一間有前後花園的兩臥室平房裡，有兩間臥室、一間飯廳、一間客廳、一間廚房和一間浴室。

I've only lived there for a week but I really like it.

我才搬來一週，但我真的很喜歡這裡。

Some of my friends have commented and actually said that it's funny that I live in a bungalow because a bungalow is associated with somebody that's elderly and it's not really the image that they expect me to live in, something like that, but

我的一些朋友評論過，甚至說我住平房很奇怪，因為平房通常讓人聯想到老年人，這不是他們預期我會住的樣子，之類的，但

On a typical evening in, Angela can be found watching television in the living room.

在一個一般的居家夜晚，安潔拉會窩在客廳看電視。

She admits that she doesn't cook for herself very often.

她承認自己不太常為自己煮飯。

She's more likely to go to her mother's or a friend's house for an evening meal and on a typical night out, Angela enjoys eating at one of her many local restaurants.

她比較常去媽媽家或朋友家吃晚餐，而在一般的外出夜晚，安潔拉喜歡去她常去的其中一家當地餐廳用餐。

A night in for me would be possibly sitting in front of the television eating a box of chocolates.

我的一個居家夜晚，大概就是坐在電視前吃一整盒巧克力。

That's my favourite, really not a person that cooks very often and if anything I do tend to go to my mother's or my friend's house who lives nearby and I do like eating out at different restaurants, Chinese, Indian and Italian and my favourites.

那是我最喜歡的，我真的不是那種很常煮飯的人，如果真的要說，我比較常去我媽媽家或是我住附近的姊妹家，而且我喜歡去不同的餐廳吃飯，像是中式、印度和義大利菜，這些都是我的最愛。

To end the program, Angela talks about her family.

節目最後，安潔拉談到她的家庭。

They're very close and spend a lot of time together.

她們感情很好，也常一起度過時光。

Angela admires her sister who's five years older than her and a midwife at a local hospital.

安潔拉很欣賞她那位大她五歲、在當地醫院擔任助產士的姊姊。

But both sisters share the same role model.

I think for me my mother is my role model because she's a very humble person and the fact that if anything she brought myself and my sister up single handedly because my father wasn't around and to do something like that is something that I'm very, very proud of.

我覺得對我來說，我媽媽是我的榜樣，因為她是一個非常謙虛的人，而且事實是，她獨自一人撫養我和我姊姊長大，因為我爸爸不在身邊，能做到這樣的事情，我感到非常、非常驕傲。

And I remember that she's always said that you can do anything you want.

而且我記得她總是說，妳想做什麼都可以。

Don't let anybody say to you, you know, you can't do that.

不要讓任何人告訴妳，妳做不到。

And she's always like strived for me and my sister to do well and I just really hope that she is.

她一直以來都努力希望我和我姊姊能有好的發展，我真的很希望她能看到。

In fact, I do know that she is proud of me now.

事實上，我知道她現在為我感到驕傲。

Although she had her reservations about me actually joining the police, she is very, very proud now.

雖然她對我加入警察這個決定有些保留，但她現在非常、非常驕傲。

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