中级听力面向有一定英语基础的学习者。本期的听力训练会带来日常常用短语情景材料，请结合mp3以及下方的原文和翻译，开始今天的中级听力练习吧！

听力原文及翻译

B: How about you? What have you been up to all these years?

B：那你呢？这些年来你在忙些什么？

A: Well, I studied film and got my degree in cinematography, but film making isn't all it's cracked up to be, I could enter a living from the films I was making.

A：嗯，我学的是电影，拿到了电影摄影学位，但电影制作并不像人们说的那么简单，我很难通过拍电影谋生。

B: That sounds tough!

B：听起来很难！

A: Tell me about it! I had to work all kinds of jobs for a while just to make ends meet. I painted people's houses, and I did some lawn maintenance. Then I work as a photographer for a few years. I have been working on a film lately, but I don't know if it's going to be successful.

A：可不是吗！有一段时间，我不得不做各种各样的工作才能维持生计。我给别人刷过房子，还做过草坪维护工作。然后我做了几年摄影师。我最近在拍一部电影，但不知道是否会成功。

B: Just hang in there, the road to success is not easy, hard work and patients always pay off big time. I hope you get the big break you need!

B：坚持下去，成功之路并不容易，努力工作和耐心总能带来丰厚的回报。希望你能得到你需要的重大突破！

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