مکالمه انگلیسی امروز ما درباره سیگار کشیدن است. سیگار کشیدن یک موضوع جهانی است که همه در همه جای دنیا با آن به شکلی درگیر هستند. این می تواند شامل کسانی باشند که سیگار می کشند یا افرادی که در معرض دود سیگار قرار دارند (در انگلیسی به آنها Secondhand smokers یا Passive smoking می گویند.) حتی عبارتی با نام Thirdhand smokers هست که منظور از آن وجود ریزذراتی است که در خانه بر روی وسایل یا زمین و فرش به جای می مانند[منبع]
در این درس یک مکالمه بین یک زن و شوهر را بررسی می‌کنیم که درباره همین موضوع سیگار کشیدن به انگلیسی است. سپس لغاتی را که مربوط سیگار در انگلیسی است را مرور می کنیم. با ما تا انتهای این درس مکالمه انگلیسی همراه باشید.
پیشنهادهای ویژه
نرم افزار آموزش مکالمه انگلیسی (ویژه اندروید)
با قابلیت تشخیص صدا و ترجمه فارسی
بسته کامل آموزش مکالمه زبان انگلیسی
شامل مجموعه‌های ویدویی و صوتی
🗣 No Smoking! (سیگار کشیدن ممنوع!)
A: It smells like an ashtray in here!
اینجا داره بوی سیگار می‌آد!
B: Hi honey! What’s wrong?
سلام عسلم! چی شده؟
Why do you have that look on your face?
چرا قیافه ات این شکلی شده؟ (چرا اخم کردی؟)
A: What’s wrong? I thought we agreed that you were gonna quit smoking.
چی شده؟! من فکر کردم قرار گذاشتیم که تو سیگار رو ترک کنی.
B: No! I said I was going to cut down which is very different.
نه! من گفتم می خوام کم کنم که یک چیز دیگه است.
You can’t just expect me to go cold turkey overnight!
نمی تونی انتظار داشته باشی یه شبه ترک کنم!
A: Look, there are other ways to quit. You can try the nicotine patch, or nicotine chewing gum.
ببین، راههای دیگه ای برای ترک کردن هست. می تونی از چسب های نیکوتین یا آدامس های ترک سیگار استفاده کنی.
We spend a fortune on cigarettes every month and now laws are cracking down and not allowing smoking in any public place.
ما هر ماه کلی پول بابت سیگار میدیم و قانون هم داره سخت گیری هاشو بیشتر می کنه و اجازه نمی ده در مکان های عمومی سیگار کشید.
It’s not like you can just light up like before.
دیگه اینطور نیست که تو مثل قبل بتونی سیگار روشن کنی.
B: I know, I know. I am trying but, I don’t have the willpower to just quit.
می دونم، می دونم. من تلاش می کنم ولی، من اراده ترک کردن رو ندارم.
I can’t fight with the urge to reach for my pack of smokes in the morning with coffee or after lunch! Please understand?
من نمی تونم با میلم برای برداشتن پاکت سیگارم، صبح ها با قهوه یا بعد از نهار مبارزه کنم! می فهمی؟
A: Fine! I want a divorce!
باشه! من طلاق می خوام!
🗝️ لغات انگلیسی مهم مکالمه
🔹 pack of smokes: یک بسته سیگار
🔹 urge: نیاز، میل شدید
🔹 light up: روشن کردن سیگار
🔹 willpower: اراده، عزم راسخ
🔹 nicotine chewing gum: آدامسهای نیکوتین
🔹 crack down: سخت گیری شدید، اقدامات سخت گیرانه، سرکوب کردن، برخورد بیشتر، برخورد قانونی
🔹 cold turkey: عبارتی است به معنای لغوی «بوقلمون سرد» اما مفهوم آن ترک ناگهانی یک عادت (مثلا سیگار کشیدن) می باشد
🔹 nicotine patch: چسب نیکوتین، چسب ترک سیگار
🔹 ashtray: زیرسیگاری
🔹 cut down: کم کردن، کاهش، تقلیلی دادن، قطع کردن
🔹 drag: پوک زدن به سیگار
🔹 tar: قطران سیگار، ماده ای شبیه قیر که از سوختن سیگار به وجود می آید
🔹 lighter: فندک
🔹 match: کبریت
🔹 stogie: عبارت غیر رسمی برای سیگار، به خصوص سیگارهای بزرگ و ارزان
🔹 butt: ته سیگار، فیلتر سیگار
🎯 نکات درس
Smell like ashtray
کلمه Ashtray به معنی زیرسیگاری است. چون زیرسیگاری همیشه بوی سیگار می دهد، وقتی می خواهند به کسی بگویند بوی سیگار می دهد از عبارت Smell like ashtray استفاده می کنند.
پیشنهادهای ویژه
نرم افزار آموزش مکالمه انگلیسی (ویژه اندروید)
با قابلیت تشخیص صدا و ترجمه فارسی
بسته کامل آموزش مکالمه زبان انگلیسی
شامل مجموعه‌های ویدویی و صوتی
🎧 پادکست صوتی آموزش انگلیسی
متن پادکست
Hello, everyone. My name is Marco. My name is Catherine. So, Marco, what are we talking about today? Today we’re going to be talking about a popular topic all over the world and
that is smoking. Well, not so popular in the States right now, to be honest. Well, that’s the thing. In every country in the world now they are becoming more strict on smoking and
where you can smoke. So, it’s becoming very difficult for smokers nowadays. Well, it’s a good reason to want to quit. And that’s what we’re going to be talking about today
is quitting smoking. Well, before we get going, we do have a really important phrase that we should preview in today’s vocabulary preview. Vocabulary preview. All right. So, on vocabulary
preview, we’re going to take a look at this word pack of smokes. Pack of smokes. A pack of smokes. So, smokes is a word for cigarettes. It’s the same thing, smokes or cigarettes.
Right. But a pack is, you know, like 20 cigarettes. It’s a box of cigarettes. You buy them in a pack. You don’t just buy one at a time. So, again, the phrase is pack of smokes. Pack
of smokes. So, why don’t we listen to our dialogue for the first time and see what’s going on with this smoker. Oh, it smells like an ashtray in here. Hi, honey. What’s wrong?
Why do you have that look on your face? What’s wrong? I thought we agreed you were going to quit smoking. No. I said I was going to cut down, which is very different. You can’t
just expect me to go cold turkey overnight. Look, there are other ways to quit. You can try the nicotine patch or nicotine chewing gum. We spend a fortune on cigarettes every
month and now laws are cracking down and not allowing smoking in any public place. It’s not like you can just light up like before. I know, I know. I really am trying, but I
don’t have the willpower to just quit. I can’t fight with the urge to reach for my pack of smokes in the morning with coffee or after lunch. Please understand. Fine. I want a divorce.
Sorry. I just, um, just smoked a pack of cigarettes. You do smoke, don’t you? Well, we’ll talk about that later. All right. So it is a little bit extreme though. I mean, he’s divorcing
her because she won’t quit. Well, some people really are health conscious and are afraid of the negative side of smoking, which has a lot of health side effects. Yeah. Well,
as he was complaining about all the negative effects and the negative aspects of smoking, he did mention both of them mentioned a lot of great words and phrases. So why don’t we
take a look at them now in language takeaway? Language takeaway. Well, this first word is a word that’s very important for any smoker who goes to a bar or a restaurant and needs
to put the ash somewhere, right? So when you smoke, there’s some ash, there’s some messy dirty stuff and you need an ash tray to collect it. An ash tray. So an ash tray is something
that’s usually round or square and you put it on a table and it’s just very helpful to keep the house clean or restaurant clean. So if you’re in a restaurant, you say, Hey,
can I have an ash tray, please? So the, the residue or the stuff that when you’re smoking it comes out the gray, I don’t know, like dust is called ash, right? And this is a tray.
But the complaint here is, oh, it smells like an ash tray in here. That means it smells really, really bad in here. Yeah, it smells like cigarettes. Yeah. So that word again is
ash tray, ash tray. All right. Well, and the guy was complaining and he said, well, I thought you were going to quit smoking. And she said, no, no, I said I was going to cut
down. She says it’s very different from quitting smoking. So Marco, maybe we should talk about how cutting down and quitting are different. All right. So if I say I’m going to cut down
on smoking, it’s just I’m going to smoke less. Okay. So let’s take an example. I smoke 10 cigarettes a day, but I want to cut down. How many should I smoke later? Maybe like
two or three, three, two or three instead of quitting. So if you quit smoking, that would mean zero, zero cigarettes, no smoking anymore. Right. All right. So you can also
cut down on carbs like carbohydrates. So some people who cut down on carbs eat less bread.
They don’t eat any pasta. So these are really good ways of trying to talk about dieting as well as smoking. Right. And I think we have a couple of examples of other ways we
can use this phrase cut down. So let’s listen to them now. Example one. Our company has decided to cut down our workloads. So from now on, we leave at three PM every Friday.
Example two. You should really cut down on the amount of salt you eat. It’s not good for you. Example three. My doctor told me I need to cut down on fatty foods because
of my heart condition. And when you want to smoke a cigarette, you have to do something first with some fires. We call this lighting up to light up. So lighting up, it doesn’t
mean turning on the light. It actually means using a lighter or some fire to start your cigarette. Right. So you want to light up with the lighter matches or some sort of fire.
The man says, the husband says, it’s not like you can just light up like before. That means it’s not like you can just smoke like before. So in some cases, light up means to smoke
a cigarette. We’re in a movie theater and someone lights a cigarette and I say, oh, you can’t light up in here. Right. So you can’t smoke in here. You can’t smoke in here.
It’s another way of saying smoking. Very good. And she was explaining, you know, how difficult it is. And she’s trying to quit. But she said, I don’t have the willpower to just quit willpower.
So this is an important word willpower willpower. You think of the main part of this word is will. That means the desire to do something. You want to do something. So if I have willpower,
I have strong willpower. What am I saying? You’re saying that you can make a decision and you can follow your decision. So I decide not to eat cake. I have very strong willpower.
So I never eat cake. If I don’t have strong willpower, maybe I sometimes secretly eat cake in the middle of the night from my refrigerator. So that happens, right? Sometimes you don’t
have strong enough willpower. So you kind of eat a little bit of cake. Nobody’s watching.
Exactly. And you can have willpower about lots of different things. So this is a great word again to use when you’re talking about dieting or smoking or drinking. Any type of
maybe temptation. Exactly. All right. And well, she said she had this urge to reach for her pack of smokes. Oh, urge is another good one. And it’s very similar to willpower.
But an urge is kind of like a physical feeling that makes you want to do something. So you have like this strong desire. So I have the urge to go swimming today. I don’t know why,
but I really want to. All right. You have an urge. Interesting word. Pregnant women often have these kinds of things too. I have the urge to do something. We also call them
cravings. Cravings or urge to do something. All right. Interesting. So we’ve taken a look at these five great words. And I think we should listen to our dialogue again. We’re
going to slow it down just a little bit and then we’ll come back and talk some more.
Oh, it smells like an ashtray in here. Hi, honey. What’s wrong? Why do you have that look on your face? What’s wrong? I thought we agreed that you were going to quit smoking.
No. I said I was going to cut down, which is very different. You can’t just expect me to go cold turkey overnight. Look, there are other ways to quit. You can try the nicotine
patch or nicotine chewing gum. We spend a fortune on cigarettes every month and now laws are cracking down and not allowing smoking in any public place. It’s not like you can
just light up like before. I know. I know. I really am trying, but I don’t have the willpower to just quit. I can’t fight with the urge to reach for my pack of smokes in the morning
with coffee or after lunch. Please understand. Fine. I want a divorce. And we are back. So we have a great part of our show where we like to talk about some phrases that help
you attain fluency. That means sounding like a native speaker of English and today’s phrases are wonderful. All right. So let’s take a look at them now in fluency builder. Fluency builder.
So on fluency builder today, let’s take a look at two different phrases and let’s start with the first one. She mentioned something about going cold turkey overnight. What is
that phrase? Cold turkey. Now, this is a very strange phrase. Okay. So first of all, why would a turkey be cold? They have lots of feathers. And second of all, why would it? What does
it have to do with cigarettes? Right. So if I say I’m going cold turkey, what is that?
So just take this as a phrase. Don’t think about the actual words because they won’t make sense in this context. What we’re talking about is quitting smoking entirely. You’re
not going to cut down. It means today I’m not going to smoke at all and I’m never going to smoke again. That means never, ever will I smoke another cigarette. So it’s cold turkey.
So, if I go cold turkey, it means I stopped doing something immediately and suddenly and forever. Entirely. All right. So you can use this phrase for different habits, different things that you do, like drinking, for example, or cutting down on sugar. But generally, we
just say this about cigarettes. So it’s mostly related to smoking. Yeah. So going cold turkey.
Some people like to smoke less, like one cigarette a day or one cigarette a week. But going cold turkey is supposed to be the hardest. Right. Okay. Going cold turkey. All right.
And well, he was explaining the different negative aspects of smoking. He said, well, you know, they spend a fortune on cigarettes every month and he said laws are cracking down. So if the laws are cracking down, what is he trying to say there? Well, this is actually
a very interesting point because in America right now, it’s very hard to smoke in public places. So this means that the government is trying to stop people from smoking. So
they say no more smoking in public places, no more smoking in restaurants, no more smoking in bars. And so this is this means they’re cracking down. They’re making it harder to
do something. So they are becoming more strict. I think for this phrase, we should listen to a couple of more examples just to make sure we understand it. Example one. The police
are cracking down on drunk driving in our city. Example two. Our school has really started to crack down on tardiness. Example three. The president has passed a law that will crack down possession of illegal substances. All right. So the government is cracking down.
Laws are cracking down. Yeah, exactly. So this is an important one because you read this in the newspapers as well about certain laws and police action. All right, great.
So I think it’s time for us to listen to this dialogue for one last time and then we’ll come back and talk a little bit more about this vice.
It smells like an ashtray in here. Hi, honey. What’s wrong? Why do you have that look on your face? What’s wrong? I thought we agreed you were going to quit smoking. No. I said
I was going to cut down, which is very different. You can’t just expect me to go cold turkey overnight. Look, there are other ways to quit. You can try the nicotine patch or nicotine
chewing gum. We spend a fortune on cigarettes every month and now laws are cracking down and not allowing smoking in any public place. It’s not like you can just light up like before.
I know, I know. I really am trying, but I don’t have the willpower to just quit. I can’t fight with the urge to reach for my pack of smokes in the morning with coffee or after
lunch. Please understand. Fine. I want a divorce.
So do you have a problem with this vice as you call it? Are you a smoker? I’m really not. I’m the type of person that could maybe smoke socially. Like if we go out to a bar
with drinks, a social smoker like they call it, right? Yeah. I’m jealous, but not really.
You’re a habitual smoker, right? Right. Well, I was, I’m trying to cut down. So as a habitual smoker, I often smoked every day. Sometimes I smoked a lot and sometimes I smoke less,
but right now I’m in a period where I’m mostly quit. Okay, almost. Yeah. Well, I haven’t smoked in a while and when I do, it’s just one cigarette. Now it is interesting because
like we mentioned, laws are cracking down on where you can smoke, but also taxes and cigarettes are becoming much more expensive, right? Absolutely. Especially where I’m from in Chicago, it’s easy to spend maybe 10 US dollars or 12 US dollars on one pack of cigarettes
on a pack of cigarettes. Imagine that. So, and you have people that can’t help smoking one or two packs a day. Yeah. How much is that a month? It’s just an amazing amount
of money. 10,000 dollars. Well, and I have to say though, a lot of my friends who used to smoke in America have quit. So this is maybe working. The whole thing of making cigarettes
more expensive. Yeah. Making them much more expensive. Now, another interesting thing, and what I was reading recently is that, you know, those warnings that come on cigarette packs that say, you know, smoking chaos, smoking causes cancer. Actually, a study has proven
that it’s not effective, that people don’t mind it or even worry about the cautions on the cigarette packages. Well, as a smoker, I could say that, yeah, you generally, if
you’re going to smoke a cigarette, don’t look at the label that much. You just, you know, you throw it in your bag and you forget about it. But it’s actually gotten to the point
where people choose the cigarette pack based on the picture. So it’s like, oh yeah, give me the one with the black lungs or give me that one. Oh God. Yeah. It’s interesting.
So it’s not really working. I guess we’re going to have to find other ways to make people more conscious about this vice. We should. All right. We’ll see you there. Bye.
