Dialogue 1

Jingjing: There you are, Mark. Are you ready to grab a bite to eat?
京晶：你在這兒呢，馬克。準(zhǔn)備好去吃點(diǎn)東西了嗎？
Mark: Whenever you are. I missed breakfast—so, the sooner the better.
馬克：你準(zhǔn)備好了我就準(zhǔn)備好了。我早飯都沒吃，所以，越快越好。
Jingjing: I'm all set. Let's jet.
京晶：我都準(zhǔn)備好了。走吧！
Mark: Let me just grab my coat.
馬克：稍等我拿上我的外套
Jingjing: Um, have you been smoking?
京晶：嗯…你最近在抽煙嗎？
Mark: Nah, it's probably this jacket. I was waiting for the bus, and there were some people smoking around me. I didn't bother to move upwind from them.
馬克：沒有啊，可能是這件夾克的味道吧。我之前在等車的時候，有幾個身邊的人在抽煙，我懶得走到他們的上風(fēng)口去。
Jingjing: That's a relief. I was worried that you'd started up the habit.
京晶：舒了口氣。我還擔(dān)心你剛學(xué)會抽起煙來了。
Mark: Well, I used to smoke—for more than 10 years, actually.
馬克：這個，我過去抽，抽十多年了吧。
Jingjing: Were you a heavy smoker?
京晶：你煙癮大嗎？
Mark: I wasn't a chimney or anything. I know guys who go through a pack a day, or more. For me, a pack would last two or three days, unless I was stressed out. That's all over now.
馬克：我不是個煙鬼，我知道有的人一天抽一包或者更多吧。我呢，兩三天才抽一包，除非是壓力特別大。現(xiàn)在已經(jīng)不這樣了。
Jingjing: Was it hard to quit?
京晶：戒煙難嗎？
Mark: I was lucky. I bought a vape pen when I was in America for three months. The last three weeks there, I had nothing to do. So, I just transitioned into vaping.
馬克：我是幸運(yùn)的。我在美國待了三個月那段時間買了一只電子煙，最后那三周也沒別的事做，所以我就開始抽上了電子煙。
Jingjing: Oh, that's not the same as quitting.
京晶：哦，那跟戒煙不是一回事啊。
Mark: No. Let's be honest, vaping delivers nicotine. But I'm glad to keep all that tar out of my system, and not have that foul smell hanging around me, most of the time.
馬克：不是的，讓我們誠實面對吧。電子煙里有也有焦油，但是我很開心我的身體能遠(yuǎn)離焦油，大多數(shù)時候沒有那種難聞的味道圍繞著我了。
Jingjing: Yeah, it's pretty unpleasant. So, vaping is just like smoking, then?
京晶：是的，不好聞。所以，電子煙就跟抽煙一樣嗎？
Mark: Well, there's a lot less nicotine in e-juice—that's the stuff that goes into a vape pen or a mod. I have a mod now.
馬克：這么說吧，電子煙的煙油里尼古丁少多了，煙油就是裝進(jìn)筆式電子煙或者盒式電子煙里的東西。我現(xiàn)在有一只Mod.
Jingjing: Well, then it's a small step in the right direction.
京晶：這可是方向正確的的一小步啊！
Mark: Uh huh. I admire people who can quit altogether.
馬克：可不咋滴。我真心欣賞那些兩種都能全戒的人。

New words: 習(xí)語短語

chimney 煙囪，形容老煙民
someone who smokes all the time
go through 消耗
use
vape pen 筆式電子煙
a kind of electric cigarette, shaped like a pen
nicotine 尼古丁
the drug found in cigarettes
out of my system out of my body
e-juice 煙油
the liquid used in electric cigarettes
mod 盒式電子煙
another kind of electric cigarette, box-shaped

Dialogue 2

Jingjing and Mark are at the restaurant.
京晶和馬克在餐廳里用餐
Jingjing: Is this table ok?
京晶：這張桌子行嗎？
Mark: Sure. I actually like being near the door.
馬克：沒問題。事實上我喜歡靠近一點(diǎn)門。
Jingjing: Just don't step outside for a smoke. I'm keeping an eye on you from now on.
京晶：別走出去抽一口啊。從現(xiàn)在開始我要監(jiān)督著你。
Mark: Don't worry about it. I've gone for more than a year already. Besides, it's great that not so many people smoke in public nowadays.
馬克：不用擔(dān)心。我都戒了一年多了。再說了，現(xiàn)在沒有多少人在公共場合吸煙了，挺好的。
Jingjing: You said it. I remember, just a few years ago, people would light up in restaurants and all sorts of places.
京晶：說得是啊。我記得，幾年前吧，人們在餐館和各種各樣的地方抽煙。
Mark: Yeah, that took a few years to change. But, now, people are a lot more considerate.
馬克：是啊，花了些年頭改變呢。現(xiàn)在，人們更加體諒他人了。
Jingjing: Yep. An article I read in China Daily said that there are 1 percent fewer smokers in Beijing than there were two years ago.
京晶：我讀過一篇中國日報的文章說與兩年前相比，北京的吸煙者已經(jīng)少了1%。
Mark: That's a big decrease.
馬克：下降幅度真大啊！
Jingjing: It is: 200,000 fewer people smoking. The article also said the public smoking ban is 95% effective now. In 2015, only 77% of public places passed inspection.
京晶：煙民少了20萬人。文章還說公共場合禁煙有效率95%。在2015年，只有77%的公眾場所通過了審查。
Mark: It's definitely an improvement, not having second-hand smoke around you when you go out to eat.
京晶：出門吃個飯不吸二手煙了確實是一大進(jìn)步。
Jingjing: What's more, we can hope that fewer teenagers will try cigarettes.
京晶：再有了，我們可以期待未來更少的年輕人會嘗試學(xué)抽煙了。
Mark: That's an important change. If people no longer think of it as normal to smoke, there could be a steady decrease in the number of new smokers.
馬克：這可是一個重要的改變。如果人們不再認(rèn)為吸煙是正常的，新煙民的數(shù)量就會持續(xù)減少。
Jingjing: Let's hope our public places here in Beijing get better and better.
京晶：讓我們希望北京的公共場所會越來越好（干凈清潔）。
Jingjing

New words: 習(xí)語短語

keeping an eye on you 監(jiān)督你
watching someone to make sure they don't do something bad
light up 點(diǎn)燃煙
start smoking a cigarette
considerate 體諒的，考慮他人的
thoughtful of others, keeping people comfortable
decrease 大量減少
change from a large number to a smaller number
inspection 審查，檢查
when officials go to see if people are following rules
second-hand smoke 二手煙
smoke in the air, breathed by people who aren't smoking