The Double life of Alf Bloggs

These days,People who do manual work are often receive more money than people who work in offices. People who work in offices are frequently referred to as "white collar worker" for the simple reason that they usually wear a collar and tie to go to work. Such is a human nature that a lots of people are willing to sacrificed higher pay for the privilege of becoming a white collar workers. 

This can give rise to curious situations. As it did in the case of Alf Bloggs who works as a dustman for the leremere corporation. When he got married, he was too embarrassed  to tell anything to his wife about his work. He simply told her that he works for a corporation. Every morning, He left home dressed in smart black suit. Then he changed overalls and spend next eight hours as a dustman. Before returning home , He took a shower and changed into his black suit. Alf did this over two years and his fellow dustmen kept the secret. His wife has never discovered that she was married a dustman and she never will for the Alf found another job. He will soon work in a office.  He will earning only half as much as he used to and he feels that a rise in status is well worth the loss of money. From now on ,he wear a suit all days and everyone calls him "Mr Bloggs" , not Alf.

words:

manual work   mental work

white-collar(do mental work)   blue-collar(do manual work)      (get)  hot under the collar怒气冲天

sacrifice one's life for the country

make many sacrifices

give sb a privilege of doing sth

privileged   adj荣幸的  

overalls  男工作服    overall 女工作服

keep secret / it's between you and me / I 'll keep it to myself

confidential adj 机密的       

In secret 私下里=secretly 

in the secret 知道内情    eg: he was in the secret from the beginning.

status 地位  statue 雕像，塑像

people who do manual work = blue-collar workers

people who work in offices / do mental work = white-collar works

far more money  : far副词加强语气= much

refer to ......as =regard ......as   把.........看作为      eg: I always refer to him as bookwarm

for the simple reason  =  for引导的原因状语从句     because 更加正式

he simply told ........

dressed in a smart black suit     形容词短语表示一种状态   eg: He got to work dressed in a beautiful coat

changed into 换上    took off ...  and put on ....

在省略句式中，never要放在助动词之前    I  never will.

half(a quarter , twice, three times) as much as ....  

this road is four times longer than that one = this road is five times as long as that one

is well worth the loss of money.       eg:  what he obtained is well worth  the loss of time