新概念英语第二册第78课-The last one-.docxVIP

PAGE 7 PAGE 7 ——文章来源网络，仅供参考 新概念英语第二册第 78 课:The last one? Lesson 78 The last one?最后一枝吗? First listen and then answer the question. 听录音，然后回答以下问题。 For how long did the writer give up smoking? After reading an article entitled Cigarette Smoking and Your Health I lit a cigarette to calm my nerves. I smoked with concentration and pleasure as I was sure that this would be my last cigarette. For a whole week I did not smoke at all and during this time, my wife suffered terribly. I had all the usual symptoms of someone giving up smoking: a bad temper and an enormous appetite. My friends kept on offering me cigarettes and cigars. They made no effort to hide their amusement whenever I produced a packet of sweets from my pocket. After seven days of this I went to a party. Everybody around me was smoking and I felt extremely uncomfortable. When my old friend Brian urged me to accept a cigarette, it was more than I could bear. I took one guiltily, lit it and smoked with satisfaction. My wife was delighted that things had returned to normal once more. Anyway, as Brian pointed out, it is the easiest thing in the world to give up smoking. He himself has done it lots of times! 参考译文 读完一篇题为《吸烟与健康》的文章之后，我点上了一枝香烟，来镇定一下自己紧张的神经。我聚精会神而又愉快地吸着这枝烟。因为我确信这是我最后一枝 烟了。整整一个星期我根本没有吸烟。在此期间，我妻子吃尽了苦头。我具备了戒烟者通常表现出来的所有症状：脾气暴躁和食欲旺盛。我的朋友们不断地向我递香 烟和雪茄。每当我从口袋里掏出一包糖果时，他们都毫不掩饰地表现出他们对此感到非常好笑。这样过了 7 天以后，我去参加一次聚会。我周围的每个人都在吸烟， 我感到非常不自在。当我的老朋友布赖恩极力劝我接受一枝香烟时，我再也忍不住了。我内疚地接过一枝点上，心满意足地抽起来。一切又都 恢复了正常，为此我妻 子十分高兴。不管怎么说，正如布赖恩指出的那样，戒烟是世界上最容易的事情，他自己就已戒了很多次了！ New words and expressions 生词和短语 entitle v. 以 为名 calm v. 使镇定 nerve n. 神经 concentration n. 集中，专心 suffer v. 受苦，受害 symptom n. 症状 temper n. 脾气 appetite n. 胃口，食欲 produce v. 拿出 urge v. 力劝，怂恿 satisfaction n. 满意，满足 delighted adj. 欣喜的 Lesson 78 自学导读 First things first 课文详注 Further notes on the text an article entitled‘Cigarette Smoking and Your Health’,一篇题为《吸烟与健康》的文章。 在英语中，文章名与书名中的每个单词的第一个字母均大写，不在开头位置的连词、冠词、小品词除外。entitle 的含义为“给……题名／定名”，在这里是过去分词（短语）作定语。entitle 常用于被动语态： The writer