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Unit 3 A healthy life
Part I
Advice from Grandad
爷爷的忠告
Dear James,
is a beautiful
day here and I am sitting under the big tree at
the end of the garden. I have just
returned from a long bike ride to an
old
castle.
It
seems
amazing
that
at
my
age
I
am
still
fit
enough
to
cycle
20 km in
an afternoon. It’s my birthday in two weeks’ time
and I’ll
be
82
years
old!
I
think
my
long
and
active
life
must
be
due
to
the
healthy
life I live.
今天这儿的天气很好。现在我正坐在花园尽头的那棵大树底下呢。我刚刚才
< br>回来，骑自行车跑了很长一段路，一直到了古城堡。感到惊奇吧，像我这样的年
纪
，
身体健康而且能在一个下午骑车跑
20
公里。
再过两个礼拜就是我
82
岁的
生
日了！我想我之所以长寿而且精力充沛，要归功于我的健康生活。
brings me to the real reason for my
letter, my dear grandson.
Your mother
tells me that you started smoking some time ago
and now you
are finding it difficult to
give it up. Believe me, I know how easy it
is
to
begin
smoking
and
how
tough
it
is
to
stop.
You
see,
during
adolescence
I also smoked
and became addicted to cigarettes.
这就是我
写信给你的真正原因
,
我亲爱的孙子。
你妈妈告诉我
,
你不久前开始
吸烟了<
/p>
,
而且现在很难把它戒掉。相信我吧
,<
/p>
我知道
,
吸烟容易戒烟难。你知道
,
当我还是一个十几岁的孩子的时候
,
我也吸过烟
,
而且还上了瘾。
the way, did you know that this
is because you become addicted
in three
different ways? First, you can become physically
addicted to
nicotine, which is one of
the hundreds of chemicals in cigarettes. This
means
that
after
a
while
your
body
becomes
accustomed
to
having
nicotine
in it. So when the drug leaves your
body, you get withdrawal symptoms.
I
remember
feeling
bad-tempered
and
sometimes
even
in
pain.
Secondly,
you
become
addicted
through
habit.
As
you
know,
if
you
do
the
same
thing
over
and
over again, you
begin to
do
it automatically. Lastly, you can
become
mentally
addicted.
I
believed
I
was
happier
and
more
relaxed
after
having
a
cigarette,
so
I
began
to
think
that
I
could
only
feel
good
when
I
smoked.
I was addicted in all three ways, so it
was very difficult to quit. But
I did
finally manage.
这儿我想顺便问你一个问题
,
你知道上瘾有三个方面的原因吗
?
首
先
,
你会在
身体上对尼古丁有瘾
,
它是香烟里几百种化学物质之一。
这就是说
,
过一段时间以
后
,
你的身体习惯了香烟里的尼古丁
,
一旦你的体内没有这种麻醉剂了
,
你就会有
< br>断瘾症状
,
我记得曾感到烦燥、
甚至痛苦。
其次你也可能因为习惯的原因而上瘾。
你知道
,
如果你反反复复地做同一件事情
,
你就会自动地做它。最后
,
你可以心理
上瘾。我
那时认为
,
抽了一支烟后就会感到更轻松愉快
,
于
是我就以为抽烟才能
使自己感觉良好。
我之所以上瘾是有着这三
个方面的原因的
,
因此
,
要戒烟就很难。
但是我终于还是戒掉了。
I was young, I
didn’t know
much about the harmful effects of
smoking. I didn’t know, for example,
that it could do terrible damage
to
your
heart
and
lungs
or
that
it
was
more
difficult
for
smoking
couples
to become pregnant. I certainly didn’t
know their babies may have
a
smaller birth weight or even be
abnormal in some way. Neither did I know
that
my
cigarette
smoke
could
affect
the
health
of
non-smokers.
However,
what
I
did
know
was
that
my
girlfriend
thought
I
smelt
terrible.
She
said
my
breath
and
clothes
smelt,
and
that
the
ends
of
my
fingers
were
turning
yellow.
She
told
me
that
she
wouldn’t
go
out
with
me
again
unless
I
stopped!
I also
noticed that I became breathless quickly, and that
I wasn’t
enjoying sport as much. When I
was taken off the school football team
because I was unfit, I knew it was time
to quit smoking.
在我年轻的时候
,
关于吸烟的危害性我知道得并不多。
例如
,<
/p>
我不知道抽烟能
严重侵害人的心脏和肺部
,
也不知道吸烟的夫妇生育能力会下降。我当然不知道
他们的婴
儿在出生时可能体重较轻或在某些方面不正常。我更不知道
,
我
自己吸
烟还会损害那些不吸烟人的健康。然而我的的确确知道
,
我的女朋友觉得我的烟
味很难闻。她说我的呼吸、我的衣服都有
味道
,
而且我的手指头都变黄了。她说
在我把烟戒掉之前
她是不会同我一起外出的。
我也发现我跑步很快就气喘
,
也不
像以前那样爱好运动了。
而当我因为不健康
而被校足球队除名之后
,
我才知道该
是我戒烟的时候了。
5.I
am
sending
you
some
advice
I
found
on
the
Internet.
It
might
help
you to
stop and strengthen your resolve. I do hope so
because I want you
to live as long and
healthy a life as I have.
我把我从网上找到的一些忠告
寄给你
,
也许对你戒烟和坚定决心会有所帮助。
我的确希望你把烟戒掉
,
因为我希望你能像我这样活得健康长寿
Love from
Grandad
Part II
How can I stop smoking?
你怎样才能戒烟
1.
It isn’t easy to stop
smoking, but millions have managed to quit
and so can you. Here are a few
suggestions.
戒烟不容易
,
但许许多多的人都成功地戒掉了烟
,
所以你也能。
这儿有几点建
议
:
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