全文 12 句（男女对话）· 12 个生词和短语（加粗 + 红色音标 / 词性 / 释义）
作者1. After reading an article entitled /ɪn'taɪtld/ v. 以……为名 'Cigarette Smoking and Your Health' I lit a cigarette to calm /kɑːm/ v. 使镇定 my nerves /nɜːvz/ n. 神经.
作者2. I smoked with concentration /ˌkɒnsn'treɪʃn/ n. 集中，专心 and pleasure as I was sure that this would be my last cigarette.
作者3. For a whole week I did not smoke at all and during this time, my wife suffered /'sʌfəd/ v. 受苦，受害 terribly.
作者4. I had all the usual symptoms /'sɪmptəmz/ n. 症状 of someone giving up smoking: a bad temper /'tempə/ n. 脾气 and an enormous appetite /'æpɪtaɪt/ n. 胃口，食欲.
作者5. My friends kept on offering me cigarettes and cigars.
作者6. They made no effort to hide their amusement whenever I produced /prə'djuːst/ v. 拿出 a packet of sweets from my pocket.
作者7. After seven days of this I went to a party.
作者8. Everybody around me was smoking and I felt extremely uncomfortable.
作者9. When my old friend Brian urged /ɜːdʒd/ v. 力劝，怂恿 me to accept a cigarette, it was more than I could bear.
作者10. I took one guiltily, lit it and smoked with satisfaction /ˌsætɪs'fækʃn/ n. 满意，满足.
作者11. My wife was delighted /dɪ'laɪtɪd/ adj. 欣喜的 that things had returned to normal once more.
作者12. 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!
作者1. 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。
作者2. 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。
作者3. 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。
作者4. 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。
作者5. 我的朋友们不断地向我递香烟和雪茄。
作者6. 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。
作者7. 这样过了7天以后，我去参加一次聚会。
作者8. 我周围的每个人都在吸烟，我感到非常不自在。
作者9. 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。
作者10. 我内疚地接过一枝点上，心满意足地抽起来。
作者11. 一切又都恢复了正常，为此我妻子十分高兴。
作者12. 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！