سلام زبان

The Last One?

After reading an article entitled ‘Cigarette Smoking and Your Health’ I lit a cigarette to calm my nerves. I smoke with concentration and pleasure as I was sure that this would be my last cigarette. For a whole week I did not smoke at all and during this time, my wife suffered terribly. I had all the usual symptoms of someone giving up smoking: a bad temper and an enormous appetite. My friends kept on offering me cigarettes and cigars.

They made no effort to hide their amusement whenever I produced a packet of sweets from my pocket. After seven days of this I went to a party. Everybody around me was smoking and I felt extremely uncomfortable .when my old friend Brian urged me to accept a cigarette; it was more than I could bear. I took one guiltily, lit it and smoked with satisfaction .my wife was delighted that things had returned to normal once more. Anyway, as Brian pointed out, it is the easier things in the world to give up smoking. He himself has done it lots of times!

Vocabulary

Entitle:

To give sb the right to have or do sth:

Example:
you will be entitled to your pension when you reach 65.

Lit:

Pt, pp of light

Pleasure:

A state of feeling or being happy or satisfied: enjoyment:

Example:
- To read for pleasure

Symptom:

A sign that sth exists, especially sth bad:

علائم

Example:
The rise in infection was just one symptom of the poor state of the economy.

Enormous: extremely large; huge; immense:

خیلی بزرگ

Example:
An Enormous House

Appetite: physical desire for food:

اشتها

Example:
- He suffered from headaches, insomnia and loss of headaches

Urge:

To advise or try hard to persuade sb to do sth:

Example:
- She urged him to stay.

Satisfaction:

The good feeling that you have when you have achieved sth that you wanted to happen does happen; sth that gives you this feeling:

Example:
- To gain /get satisfaction.

Delighted:

very pleased:

Example:
- A delighted smile.

Pointed out:

To stretch your finger out towards sb/sth in order to show sb which person or things you are referring to:

Example:
I’ll point him out to you next times he comes in.

Special note

The verb KEEP has a different meaning in each of these sentences. Study them carefully:

Example:
- My friends kept on offering me cigarettes and cigars. (Continued)

- Please keep off the grass. (Do not walk on it.)

- He kept away from the party. (Did not come.)

- Under my essay, the teacher wrote, ‘good work! Keep it up!’(Continue making an effort.)

- He ran so fast, I could not keep up with him. (Remain beside him.)

- A big notice on the door said, ‘keep out!’(Do not come in.)

- The boy was kept in after school. (To stay as a punishment.)

Such verbs are called ‘phrasal verbs’ and are very important in English language. Try to learn them as soon as you can.