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中级英语口语教程(24):Want to Kill Yourself?

作者:stephen    文章来源:方向标英语网    点击数:    更新时间:2009-4-19 【我来说两句

 

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MIRIAM   Yeah, when, when did you start smoking?
STEVE   Well, I started when I was, er, about sixteen, and I really started  because
   I. . . well , I think my family smoked and that really made me want to,  er,...
   really; somehow it was like growing up.
MIRIAM   Yeah.
STEVE   And, of course, my friends around me were smoking and when we, when we
   left school we'd go over the park and have a s... , and have a quick cigarette.
   And er, I mean, I do remember when I first started that I didn't really draw
   cigarettes at all because I didn't really know how to do it and I didn't think
   it was very pleasant ; and it's only as time goes by you get more and more
   involved in that,erm, in that process until finally you've ... you  realise
   that you, you can't give up. And, in fact, when I first started I used to
   pretend that I was so hooked that I couldn't give up, because it was like
   being a child-it was like being a, being a grown-up. You know, grown-ups say
   they can't give up smoking, they wish they couldn't smoke and I used to pretend
   to say that.And of course , by the time it really happens it's too late.
   It doesn't mean the same thing any more. You actually want to give up but you
   can't.
MIRIAM   I've smoked since I was eighteen and I started , er. . as you did , sort of ...
   sort of socially. And it wasn't a lot of fun to start with.
STEVE   Right.
MIRIAM   It was quite embarrassing, sometimes, you know. You get srnoke in your eyes and
   your eyes would water and it's a dead give-away that you've only just started.
STEVE   Mmm.
MIRIAM   Er. And I didn't care for the taste all that much but everybody. . . people  
   smoked. . . I mean I started smoking a long time ago before anything was
   known about cancer and, er... it was just the thing to do. And as, as you said,
   it was a... , it was being grown-up. It was drawing that line, you know:
   I am, now grown up.
ANNE   I should think I started at nine. .. I started. No, I really started my first  
   year at university. Everybody else smoked. It was just the thing to do.And
   now not.so many people smoke, it's ... it seems to me that it was an awful
   waste of time and money. But my father smoked and my mother didn't so it was
   always a split thing in the house. I don't know, I really.. I think it probably
   just was a social habit more than anything else.
JOHN   Like most people , I started smoking at school , foolishly. Er , I was offered  
   cigarettes by other, er, children and in those days, I suppose smoking was the
   equivalent of drug taking today; er, that it was considered, erm, ... erm,...
   fashionable and sophisticated and adult to smoke.

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