盘点世界上最幸福的十种工作

 　　Clergy¹: The least worldly are reported to be the happiest of all.

　　神职人员：最不谙世事的工作据说是最幸福的工作。

　　Firefighters: 80 per cent of firefighters are “very satisfied” with their jobs, which involve helping² people.

　　消防员：消防员的工作能给人们提供帮助，而80%的消防员都表示对自己的工作“非常满意”。

　　Physical therapists: Social interaction and helping people apparently³ make this job one of the happiest.

　　理疗师：社会互动和帮助他人明显使得这份工作是最幸福的工作之一。

　　Authors: For most authors, the pay is ridiculously low or non-existent, but the autonomy of writing down the contents of your own mind apparently leads to happiness.

　　作家：对于大多数作家来说，他们的报酬少得可怜，或者根本没有，但是写下自己心中所想显然会带来快乐。

　　Special education teachers: If you don’t care about money, a job as special education teacher might be a happy profession.

　　特殊教育老师：如果你不在乎金钱，特殊教育老师这个工作或许是个幸福的职业。（这份工作每年的平均薪水仅在5万美元以下。）

　　Teachers: Teachers in general report being happy with their jobs, despite the current issues with education funding and classroom conditions. The profession continues to attract young idealists, although 50 per cent of new teachers are gone within five years.

　　教师：尽管当前存在着教育经费和教室条件的问题，一般来说教师们还是感到自己的工作很幸福的。这一职业继续吸引着年轻的理想主义者，尽管有50%的新教师都在5年以内选择转行了。

　　Artists: Sculptors⁴ and painters report high job satisfaction, despite the great difficulty in making a living from it.

　　艺术家：雕刻家和画家据称是工作满意度最高的职业，尽管在这一职业上谋生有着相当大的困难。

　　Psychologists: Psychologists may or may not be able to solve other people’s problems, but it seems that they have managed to solve their own.

　　心理学家：心理学家不一定能解决其他人的问题，但是似乎他们已经解决了自己的问题。

　　Financial services sales agents: 65 per cent of financial services sales agents are reported to be happy with their jobs. That could be because some of them are clearing more than $90,000 dollars a year on average for a 40-hour work week in a comfortable office environment.

　　金融理财销售代理：据报道65%的金融理财销售代理认为自己的工作很幸福。这大概是因为他们中的一些人在舒服的办公环境中工作，每周工作40个小时，平均每年挣9万多美元。

　　Operating engineers: Playing with giant toys like bulldozers, front-end loaders, backhoes, scrapers, motor graders, shovels⁵, derricks, large pumps, and air compressors can be fun. With more jobs for operating engineers than qualified⁶ applicants⁷, operating engineers report being happy.

　　施工工程师：摆弄那些大型玩具可能是很有趣的，比如推土机、前载车、反铲挖土机、刮土机、平地机、装载机、起重机、大型水泵以及空气压缩机。同时施工工程师的工作供不应求，这使他们感觉很幸福。

1 clergy   

n.[总称]牧师，神职人员

参考例句：

• I could heartily wish that more of our country clergy would follow this example.我衷心希望，我国有更多的牧师效法这个榜样。
• All the local clergy attended the ceremony.当地所有的牧师出席了仪式。

2 helping   

n.食物的一份&adj.帮助人的，辅助的

参考例句：

• The poor children regularly pony up for a second helping of my hamburger. 那些可怜的孩子们总是要求我把我的汉堡包再给他们一份。
• By doing this, they may at times be helping to restore competition. 这样一来, 他在某些时候,有助于竞争的加强。

3 apparently   

adv.显然地；表面上，似乎

参考例句：

• An apparently blind alley leads suddenly into an open space.山穷水尽，豁然开朗。
• He was apparently much surprised at the news.他对那个消息显然感到十分惊异。

4 sculptors   

雕刻家，雕塑家( sculptor的名词复数 )； [天]玉夫座

参考例句：

• He is one of Britain's best-known sculptors. 他是英国最有名的雕塑家之一。
• Painters and sculptors are indexed separately. 画家和雕刻家被分开，分别做了索引。

5 shovels   

n.铲子( shovel的名词复数 )；锹；推土机、挖土机等的)铲；铲形部份v.铲子( shovel的第三人称单数 )；锹；推土机、挖土机等的)铲；铲形部份

参考例句：

• workmen with picks and shovels 手拿镐铲的工人
• In the spring, we plunge shovels into the garden plot, turn under the dark compost. 春天，我们用铁锨翻开园子里黑油油的沃土。 来自辞典例句

6 qualified   

adj.合格的，有资格的，胜任的，有限制的

参考例句：

• He is qualified as a complete man of letters.他有资格当真正的文学家。
• We must note that we still lack qualified specialists.我们必须看到我们还缺乏有资质的专家。

7 applicants   

申请人，求职人( applicant的名词复数 )

参考例句：

• There were over 500 applicants for the job. 有500多人申请这份工作。
• He was impressed by the high calibre of applicants for the job. 求职人员出色的能力给他留下了深刻印象。