You will find that classically about 70% of my clientele – my customers – are women. When it comes to the female customers, they'll buy a whole myriad of flowers but guys cannot help themselves – most times they'll buy roses.
Many customers will come, you'll see them buy flowers to make themselves happy because they have a baby on the way, then you meet the baby, then the baby becomes a little child and you watch them grow. And that's a wonderful experience.
BBC Learning English
Yang Li: That was Adrian talking about his job as a florist. 他喜欢自己的工作吗?
回答是肯定的。Yes he loves his job but what was the phrase he used to describe his passion? 请听下面一段,寻找关键词语。
"Originally when I did start I only imagined myself doing this for a few months while I was looking for another contract – as I used to work in the corporate environment – but I fell in love with flowers."
Yang Li: 他说,he fell in love with flowers. 他爱上了鲜花。第二个问题呢?他喜欢同顾客打交道吗? 回答也是肯定的,yes he does. He enjoys meeting and talking to his customers. In fact one customer even sent him a card and a gift, but why? Listen again.
"On one occasion there was a woman who was speaking of saying goodbye to her partner. And as we sold flowers I turned her frown into a smile and by the end of the conversation she walked away happy with her flowers and went home. It was only weeks later that I discovered – by a letter that she sent me, and a gift to say thank you for the conversation – that she told me she was getting married and having a baby with the same person."