英语听力精选进阶版 17167

 

Tobacco firms ordered to pay $12-billion to smokers¹ in Quebec

Tue, 2 Jun 15

The Quebec Superior Court has ordered three big tobacco firms to pay $15 billion CAD to smokers in the province who claimed they were never warned about the health risks associated with smoking. We speak to Andre Picard from the Toronto Globe and Mail. We hear why a new 10 year plan to kick start the renewable energy industry is modelling itself on the Apollo mission to the moon. We speak to Lord Richard Layard, the report's author. One of the biggest nights in the world restaurant calendar has taken place. Our reporter Elizabeth Hotson went to track down the winners. The BBC's Cindy Sui joins us from Taipei where the tech show Computex 2015 is underway. And Lucy Kellaway of the Financial Times, is rather peeved² at the way business people use social media to puff³ themselves up. Our guests throughout the show are David Kuo of The Motley Fool from Singapore and Jos?? Mart?n, a radical⁴ organiser, joining us from New York City.

1 smokers   

吸烟者( smoker的名词复数 )

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。
• 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。

2 peeved   

adj.恼怒的，不高兴的v.（使）气恼，（使）焦躁，（使）愤怒( peeve的过去式和过去分词 )

参考例句：

• He sounded peeved about not being told. 没人通知他，为此他气哼哼的。
• She was very peeved about being left out. 她为被遗漏而恼怒。 来自《现代英汉综合大词典》

3 puff   

n.一口(气)；一阵(风)；v.喷气，喘气

参考例句：

• He took a puff at his cigarette.他吸了一口香烟。
• They tried their best to puff the book they published.他们尽力吹捧他们出版的书。

4 radical   

n.激进份子，原子团，根号；adj.根本的，激进的，彻底的

参考例句：

• The patient got a radical cure in the hospital.病人在医院得到了根治。
• She is radical in her demands.她的要求十分偏激。