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Interviewer: I think what's striking about the results is that by far workers valued important and meaningful work as more important than any of the other characteristics, that included salary.
主持人：我认为这些结果中最令人吃惊是，劳动者看重的是重要而有意义的工作，对他们来说这比其他任何特征都重要，包括薪水。
Interviewee: Yeah. Now I'm going to tell you about another poll, and this poll was taken a year later in 1991, and it asked the respondents to reflect on how important certain job characteristics were in their work. And this is a different type of poll because whereas in the first poll, respondents had to choose only one out of five, in this poll they wanted their respondents to react to each item separately. You know, this is to rank each item as "not important", "somewhat important", "important" or "very important". So they have four choices for each item.
嘉宾：是的。现在我要告诉你另一项民意调查，这项民意调查是在1991年进行的，比刚才那个晚一年。它要求受访者思考某些工作特征在他们的工作中有多重要。这是一种不同的民意调查，因为在第一次民意调查中，受访者只能选择五项中的一项。而在这次民意调查中，他们希望他们的受访者分别对每一项做出反馈。要给每一项都标上“不重要”、“有些重要”、“重要”或“非常重要”。所以每一项有四个选择。
Interviewer: Sorry to interrupt you. How many items altogether?
主持人：不好意思我要打断一下。一共多少项?
Interviewee: Oh, the poll had 16 items. Let me give you a few examples.
嘉宾：哦，这个调查有16项。我举几个例子。
Interviewer: OK.
主持人：好。
Interviewee: The second item they asked about is interesting work. They asked how important is interesting work to you. And again, I'm just going to tell you about how many people said it was very important. In this case, 78% of the respondents ranked this as very important to them.
嘉宾：他们问的第二项是有趣的工作。他们问你有趣的工作有多重要。同样，我只想告诉你们有多少人说这很重要。这一项中，78%的受访者认为这对他们非常重要。
Interviewer: 78%?
主持人：78%?
Interviewee: Yes, 78%. This is a key point, I think. One often sees people working for a lot less if they enjoy their work.
嘉宾：是的,78%。我认为这是一个关键点。如果人们喜欢他们的工作，他们工作的负担就会少很多，这很常见。
Interviewer: That's true.
主持人：对。
Interviewee: The fourth item they asked about was opportunity to learn new skills. How important is that to you? 68% ranked this as very important. And I think that goes again to the idea of interest level, personal satisfaction, and the idea that people want their work to be meaningful.
受访者:他们询问的第四个项目是学习新技能的机会。这对你有多重要？68%的人认为这非常重要。我认为这又回到了兴趣水平，个人满足感等概念，以及人们希望做有意义的工作这样的想法。
Interviewer: Definitely.
主持人：是的。
