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。
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8vos
acceptance of work
AMTREX
backspace subroutine
Biguezal
bivalvian
Brodie-Trendelenburg test
business value-added tax
chatters
Cordaitopsida
cotylae
cruciate fissure (or cruciate sulcus)
dedikaryotization
dense traffic
device matching
dis-ease
double -entry pump
draughtsmen
drive train
Dundy County
economic load dispatching
elastic potential energy
electromagnetic effects
enamel label
Endiandra dolichocarpa
ends-of
ER diagram
exanthema syphiliticum
extended ASCII character set
five-level Baudot code
frequency-domain analyser
FRS
full rate
genus Leptinotarsa
Grosvenor Squares
guanosine hydrolase
high energy light-weight propellant
homoeostrichus multifidus
horse-lover
ignition inhibitor
in one's hair
in-body
inflammable materials
inshore marine environment
inspection certificate of origin
interpretorial
Juupajoki
Kurmysh
ladies' slipper
Lobi hepatis
M.Sc.
magnetic ferrite
male tank
merchant vesselss
nervi mandibularis
nirling
nondepreciating
null index range
nylon yarn
Ontojärvi
operating result
parallax-free model
philosophations
potential falsifier
preorogenic phase
profitably
pseudoreversible
psychiatry service
Pyrethrum roseum M.B.
R.Tr.
relativistic as-trophysics
relay cell
remained oil
resina draconis
reversed damping
rosalines
rotary vacuum disk fiter
rubidium iridium alum
science education
Scleria scrobiculata
senile reflex
shipwreckings
solid state camera
space record
special-duty motor
steam metal
Steinheid
Stolp(Slupsk)
sweeten the pot
talk without the book
taotai
Tapiantana Chan.
teulons
the civil rights movement
traditional views
transfixions
Trikeri, Diavlos
twister
uncriticisable
wave deltas
whaling guns
wind truss