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Smoking was not only sophisticated, it was intellectual and meditative, and Sherlock Holmes famously described one particularly testing case as "quite a three-pipe problem".
抽煙不僅能展現(xiàn)成熟魅力，還能幫助思考，展現(xiàn)智慧。福爾摩斯曾有句名言來形容一個案子十分棘手：這得花三斗煙的時間。
And there was, of course, also the intensely enjoyable personal engagement with the physical object. Here's the politician Tony Benn:
當(dāng)然，煙斗本身也能給抽煙者帶來愉悅。政治家托尼本因是個著名的老煙槍，他愉快地回憶起往昔：
"It's a beautiful object. I've never seen it before, and I do find it quite hard to imagine how you would smoke anything like that, but still I'm sure if you had to,you would…
這真是一個美極了的小物件。我之前從未見過,我發(fā)現(xiàn)它很難想象你會像那樣吸煙,但我相信如果你會,你會…
Stanley Baldwin smoked a pipe, Harold Wilson smoked a pipe-it was a very normal thing to do, and of course the pipe of peace, and sitting round together, and friendship pipes associated with friendship, and so on. So they do have a meaning over and above the satisfaction of smoking. It's a sort of hobby in a way-you scrape it, and clean it and fill it and tap it and light it, and it goes out and you light it again, and if you are asked a question at a meeting-not that you can smoke in meetings any more-but if you were asked a question, light your pipe and say 'that's a very good question'-it gives you a little bit of time to think of the answer. But I wouldn't recommend anybody else to start smoking."
斯坦利鮑德溫抽煙斗，哈羅德威爾遜也抽煙斗：抽煙是件極平常的事。當(dāng)然還有和平煙，讓大家坐攏到一起的友誼煙，等等。抽煙除了給人滿足感之外，還有別的意義。它可以說是種嗜好：清理煙斗，放入煙絲，輕敲一下，然后點燃，如果熄滅就再點一次。而如果在會議上有人問你問題，你可以點燃煙斗說：“這真是個好問題。”這樣便有時間思考。我也不建議任何人開始學(xué)抽煙。
