时间:2018-12-28 作者:英语课 分类:轻松英文阅读


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 Some people are calling it the best anti-smoking ad ever. It is certainly very popular. At the time of writing of this article, the video titled Smoking Kid has hit 2 million views. It was created in Thailand by the ad agency, Ogilvy Asia for the Thai Health Promotion 1 Foundation.


 
The 1-minute, 37-second video begins with scenes of people smoking on the street. In the next scene small children ask the smokers 2 for a light. How the smokers react to the children is the best part of the video. Here are some of the more memorable 3 answers:
 
“Really? Smoking is bad. You have to stop.”
 
“If you smoke, you die faster. Don’t you want to live and play?”
 
“Cigarettes contain poison.”
 
“Smoking makes you look old”
 
“When you smoke, you suffer from lung cancer, emphysema and strokes.”
 
After being warned about the dangers of smoking by the smokers, the children ask them, “So, why are you smoking?” Next, they hand them a brochure that says in Thai, “You worry about me. But why not about yourself? …Call the 1600 hotline to quit smoking.”
 
Most of the smokers look stunned 4 at this point. Then, they throw away their cigarettes and put the brochure in their pocket.
 
The ad appears to be having a big impact in Thailand. The number of calls to the hotline mentioned earlier rose by nearly 50 percent.

1 promotion
n.提升,晋级;促销,宣传
  • The teacher conferred with the principal about Dick's promotion.教师与校长商谈了迪克的升级问题。
  • The clerk was given a promotion and an increase in salary.那个职员升了级,加了薪。
2 smokers
吸烟者( smoker的名词复数 )
  • 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。
  • Chain smokers don't care about the dangers of smoking. 烟鬼似乎不在乎吸烟带来的种种危害。
3 memorable
adj.值得回忆的,难忘的,特别的,显著的
  • This was indeed the most memorable day of my life.这的确是我一生中最值得怀念的日子。
  • The veteran soldier has fought many memorable battles.这个老兵参加过许多难忘的战斗。
学英语单词
Acaulium
acm(address complete message)
aecidium mori barclay
anode current for white light output
Aristolochia dibilis S. et Z.
arteflene
background mode
Baculatisporites
breechloader
building insurance
bur-stone
clapped up
close magnetic trap
codeathons
competence of auditor
conispiral form
consumer's credit
crystalline semiconduting compound
divided dental splint
dust-dry
effect an insurance
elishas
ending of ebb
engine operation command
equivalent susceptance
error code word
excessive callus formation
ferromagnetic-paramagnetic transition
fimbrins
floating hull type drilling rig
flueries
full-scale investigation
gametophore
Gampo
general discharge
genus Chloranthus
gibbing
giga-volts
glamor stocks
groot-vis (great fish r.)
growing number
gut-check
hang-type breather
hole-base assembly system
homosexual
HR (humidity relative)
I have cancer
iconometry
indenturing
inspection requirements manual
inventions made in execution of commission or by employees
Ipava
jamborite
Kafr Kanna
lanthanum isotope
lead niobiumzine zirconate titanate ceramics
life force
listing price
Madera, R.
mattel
memory cycle
middle pressure rubber asbestos
mutomboko
nanosomia micromelica
necking-down process
nettlesome
nondiagonal
numerical multiplication
Nāthūpur
O-D variation
one pair brush multiphase series motor
One's eyes draw straws
onose
operational approach
Overlength Cargo Packing
periodic filter
postopic fenestra
prepreparation
property of soil
quartz (crystal) filter
rendlesham
return-flow-atomizer
safety joint for drill stem test
scanning ion mi-croprobe
ship tonnage
sievelike
single-disc winding
special branching circuit
spiral fracture
steam pipe expansion loop
sulfo
tape programmed raw data
temperature seiche
the rack
top-score
transitory bud
ultrasonic detection and measurement
vibrating trough
wh-question
whip cutting
wimble