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，眼特别贵。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。

　　Related Words…相关词汇

　　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

　　[ie:What does "***" mean? "***"是什么意思？]

　　lighter chained smoker tin foil filter

　　注：书中对话仅作参考，重要的是拿起电话，就自己喜欢的内容与老外反复练习。轻易不出口，出口必砸人。