A：Shawn,how long have you been in China?

Shawn,你来中国多久了?

B:A bit over 4 months,I guess.

四个多月了，我想

A:Have you noticed any difference between Chinese and Canadian?

有没有注意到中国人和加拿大人不一样的地方

B:A lot.But ther's one thing that's really unique about Chinese.I mean Chinese people like to offer me smokes.

有很多，但有一件事儿挺特别的。中国人总给我第烟

A:Is there anything wrong with that?

有什么不对吗?

B:Nothing,I mean in Cnanda,smokes are like $4 to $5,which is like 20 or 25 kuai in China.So people don't bum smokes off of other people.

没什么不对的。我是说在加拿大，烟特别贵。大约四五块。合人民币二十到二十五块。所以人们通常不会要烟抽

A:Then what do people do if they really wanna smoke?

那要是人们特想抽呢/

B:Well it depends.As for me. I would ask my friends for a drag,which means I take their cigarette and smoke it.Then I return it back .

那得看情况而定了。对我来说，我会借来抽几口，然后在还回去。

A:Why don't you just bum a cigarette?

你怎么不干脆要一棵抽呢?

B:I don't wanna be called social smokers.

我可不想被叫为social smoker

A:What does that mean?

那是什么意思?

B:A social smoker is a person who smokes only when his friends smoke.Sometimes we call those people a mooch.

social smoker就是那种自己不带烟，专门向别人要烟抽的那种人

A:Where does smoking get you ?

吸烟究竟有什么好处?

B:Nothing but bad breath and lung cancer.

除了口臭和肺癌之外没什么

A:[Chuckles]Funny smokers.

[笑]可笑的烟民啊

Attention Please…特别提醒

[你可以请外教反复帮你模仿/训练下面句子/词组的正宗美式发音]

[1]bum是一个多义词，这句话里的bum表示'要'。所以如果你是烟民的话，想向老外们要烟时就可以说Could I bum a smoke?

[2]drag的意思是连吸几口，老外们如果不好意思向朋友们要烟抽，他们就会说Can I have a drag?

[3]social smoker是指自己不带烟，专门向朋友们要烟抽的那种人。类似的说法还有social drinker，当然就是指专门向朋友们要酒喝的那种人了。

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以下这些词汇并未给出汉语意思，你可以用我们学到的英语问问外教它们的意思

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