Winnie : Any ideas about how I could earn a little pocket money?
溫妮 : 我想賺點零用錢，你有甚麼辦法嗎？
Camilla : You could deliver newspapers.
卡密拉 : 你可以給人家送報紙。
Winnie : No thank you. That means getting up really early in the morning.
I'd hate that.
溫妮 : 這個我可要敬謝不敏。送報紙，得大清早起床我可不喜歡。
Camilla : What about baby-sitting? That's what I do.
卡密拉 : 當保姆如何？我也是這樣賺零用錢的。
Winni : What do you have to do?
溫妮 : 保姆得做些甚麼？
Camilla : Well, if the children don't wake up before the parents come home, not
a lot. You can just sit and watch television all evening or read a book.
卡密拉 : 嗯，假如孩子在父母回家之前沒有醒來，那就沒有甚麼要做，
晚上可以看電視或看書。
Winnie : That's money for old rope. I'll give it a try.
溫妮 : 那樣的錢真容易賺，我會試試看。
溫妮認為幫人看孩子的工作簡單，就說：That's money for old rope. I'll give it a try。Money for old rope是俗語，譯作是「金錢換舊粗繩」。破舊的粗繩，從前在碼頭、街道上幾乎到處都是；假如有人出錢購買，那樣的錢可容易賺。現在，Money for old rope常用來說輕輕鬆鬆即可賺錢的工作，多用於it is或that is之後。另一成語money for jam（買果醬的錢）本是指有錢購買非生活必需品，現在視為money for old rope的同義詞，例如：In this job, all that you have to do is to write two or three short speeches for the boss every month. It's money for jam/old rope（擔任這份工作，你一個月只須代老闆寫兩三篇短短的講詞，這樣的錢很容易賺）。
I'll give it a try的try作名詞用，指「嘗試」。假如不用try字，可用go，例如：(1) The job appears difficult, but I'll give it a go/try（這工作看來不容易，但我會試試）。(2) He had no less four goes/tries at the matriculation examination before he passed it（他考了至少四次，大學入學試才通過）。留意go、try之後可用at帶出嘗試做的事情；兩字的複數形式則是goes和tries。
最後請回答一個問題：溫妮不喜歡早起，為甚麼不說I hate that而說I'd (=I would) hate that? 按I hate that表示溫妮現在常要早起，I would hate that的would則表示所說無非假設的情況。正如以下一句的would 字一樣：I would call the police if I were you（假如我是你，就會報警）。
