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A teacher from the Republic of Ireland has been turned down for a job in South Korea due to the "alcoholism nature" of Irish people.

來自愛爾蘭共和國的一名老師，因愛爾蘭人的「酗酒天性」，在南韓求職遭拒。

Katie Mulrennan, from County Kerry, had applied for a teaching job in Seoul. She was told by an agency that their client did not hire Irish people due to their perceived drinking habits.

來自凱瑞郡的凱蒂‧穆拉蘭，在首爾應徵教職。她被介紹所告知客戶不聘愛爾蘭人，因為愛爾蘭人的飲酒習性惡名昭彰。

The 26-year-old told the BBC that she could not believe the email was real at first. "Usually when you apply for a job and they don’t want you, they don’t send a reply," she said. "Or they tell you they would prefer someone from North America, because some schools prefer the accent."

該名26歲教師告訴英國廣播公司，她起初不相信這封電郵是真的。「通常應徵工作，他們不要你，不會寄來回應，」她說。「或是他們會告訴你，他們比較想要找來自北美洲的人，因為一些學校偏好這種口音。」

"But this reply was a first. When I got the email, it was so abrupt and short. I actually laughed when I read it initially. But then I wanted to write back a really angry response."

「但這種回應我還是第一次看到。我收到這封電郵時，這非常唐突又簡短。我剛開始看的時候，其實笑了出來。但接著我想寫一封真的非常生氣的回覆。」

"In the end I took a deep breath and sent back a reply, that was a little bit sarcastic as I couldn’t believe the email I had received. But I haven’t heard anything back since."

「最後我深呼吸，回了封信，那有點語帶諷刺，因為我不敢相信我收到這封電郵。但之後就沒有下文了。」

新聞辭典

nature：名詞，天性。例句：He is by nature inclined to be rather lazy.（他天生就懶。）

turn down：片語，拒絕。例句：He turned down the job because it involved too much travelling.（他拒絕這份工作，因為出差太頻繁。）

sarcastic：形容詞，諷刺、挖苦。例句：Are you being sarcastic?（你這是在挖苦嗎？）

宏浩翻譯引用 http://iservice.ltn.com.tw/Service/english/english.php?engno=833931&day=2014-11-27