It isn’t easy to make the (1) ____________ from a busy university student to an unemployed young adult (2) ____________ on a bar stool or half watching a mindless television show, wondering if and how their career is going to (3) ____________. Many people who have experienced a long period of inactivity like this, when (4) ____________ how they felt at the time, refer to the same strange psychological effect. As the days pass, they begin to feel (5) ____________ from any sense of pressure to go and look for a job, and tend to regard (6) ____________ interviews as if they were not very important. Typically, back at home after three or four years away, they (7) ____________ to old habits, start seeing old friends, and, in many cases, become dependent again on their parents.
1. 在超市上货也一样。(go for)
2. 跟朋友谈起自己漫无目标的日子时,他才发现他们的处境和自己一样。(in the same boat)
3. "Now I'm back at the same stage as those friends who didn't go to uni at all, who are pulling pints and doing dead-end jobs. I feel that I've come full circle."
4. "The South America trip is the cutoff point. When he comes back there'll be Christmas work if nothing else."
5. As for bar work, she is a passionate advocate: It's a great antidote to graduate apathy.