留美老师带你每日说英文 第1092期:因给老师买烟而学会抽烟

 台湾籍旅美老师今天交给我们的句子是：

I want to apologize to to Ms Amundson, my ESL teacher. She used to send me to go get cigarettes from the liquor store, and I would steal two or three cigarettes, you know. And that's the way I learned how to smoke, you know.
我想跟我的ESL老师Amundson小姐道歉。她之前都会请我帮她去酒品商店买烟，然后我都会偷个两三根下来。我就是这样学会抽烟的。

学习重点：

1.ESL 专给母语非英语的人的英语课程
ESL (n.) 专给母语非英语的人的英语课程

2.cigarette 香烟
cigarette (n.) 香烟
cigar (n.) 雪茄
nicotine¹ (n.) 尼古丁
tobacco (n.) 烟草

3.liquor 酒；烈酒
liquor (n.) 酒；烈酒
alcohol (n.) 酒精；酒
vodka (n.) 伏特加酒
whisky (n.) 威士忌酒

 

1 nicotine   

n.(化)尼古丁，烟碱

参考例句：

• Many smokers who are chemically addicted to nicotine cannot cut down easily.许多有尼古丁瘾的抽烟人不容易把烟戒掉。
• Many smokers who are chemically addicted to nicotine cannot cut down easily.许多有尼古丁瘾的抽烟人不容易把烟戒掉。