The checkout[9] staff are always pleasant too. Their job is far from uninteresting, contrary to what unimaginative intellectuals might suppose. Surely people’s purchases, infinitely various in their combination, must tell you a lot about them. I don’t think I would mind working on a supermarket checkout, at least for a few months.
In my experience, this snobbish condescension expressed by intellectuals for supermarket shelf-stackers often infuriates people much more than large injustices.[10] Therefore, if you want to improve society, don’t take for granted the small services rendered[11] you by others. Don’t just say thank you, but actually be thankful for them.
Vocabulary
1. dead-end: 没出路的,没前途的;the chances are: 很有可能的情况是……;stack: 堆放。
2. 的确,这一职业已用来比喻社会下层民众的生存毫无希望。trope: 修辞,比喻;spectrum: 范围。
3. it was scarcely any wonder: 不足为奇;alternative: 可供选择的事物。
4. dishonourable: 不光彩的,丢脸的。
5. variation: 变化;admirably: 极好地。
6. impugn: 怀疑,质疑;intelligence: 智力,智慧。
7. Tesco, Sainsbury, Waitrose, Morrisons均为英国大型超市名。
8. coriander: 芫荽,香菜;brass polish: 擦铜油(铜部件时间长了有铜绿,用擦铜油擦后会变亮)。
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