Jingjing: There you are, Mark. Are you ready to grab a bite to eat?

京晶：你在这儿呢，马克。准备好去吃点东西了吗？

Mark: Whenever you are. I missed breakfast—so, the sooner the better.

马克：你准备好了我就准备好了。我早饭都没吃，所以，越快越好。

Jingjing: I'm all set. Let's jet.

京晶：我都准备好了。走吧！

Mark: Let me just grab my coat.

马克：稍等我拿上我的外套

Jingjing: Um, have you been smoking?

京晶：嗯…你最近在抽烟吗？

Mark: Nah, it's probably this jacket. I was waiting for the bus, and there were some people smoking around me. I didn't bother to move upwind from them.

马克：没有啊，可能是这件夹克的味道吧。我之前在等车的时候，有几个身边的人在抽烟，我懒得走到他们的上风口去。

Jingjing: That's a relief. I was worried that you'd started up the habit.

京晶：舒了口气。我还担心你刚学会抽起烟来了。

Mark: Well, I used to smoke—for more than 10 years, actually.

马克：这个，我过去抽，抽十多年了吧。

Jingjing: Were you a heavy smoker?

京晶：你烟瘾大吗？

Mark: I wasn't a chimney or anything. I know guys who go through a pack a day, or more. For me, a pack would last two or three days, unless I was stressed out. That's all over now. 

马克：我不是个烟鬼，我知道有的人一天抽一包或者更多吧。我呢，两三天才抽一包，除非是压力特别大。现在已经不这样了。

Jingjing: Was it hard to quit?

京晶：戒烟难吗？

Mark: I was lucky. I bought a vape pen when I was in America for three months. The last three weeks there, I had nothing to do. So, I just transitioned into vaping.

马克：我是幸运的。我在美国待了三个月那段时间买了一只电子烟，最后那三周也没别的事做，所以我就开始抽上了电子烟。

Jingjing: Oh, that's not the same as quitting.

京晶：哦，那跟戒烟不是一回事啊。

Mark: No. Let's be honest, vaping delivers nicotine. But I'm glad to keep all that tar out of my system, and not have that foul smell hanging around me, most of the time.

马克：不是的，让我们诚实面对吧。电子烟里有也有焦油，但是我很开心我的身体能远离焦油，大多数时候没有那种难闻的味道围绕着我了。

Jingjing: Yeah, it's pretty unpleasant. So, vaping is just like smoking, then?

京晶：是的，不好闻。所以，电子烟就跟抽烟一样吗？

Mark: Well, there's a lot less nicotine in e-juice—that's the stuff that goes into a vape pen or a mod. I have a mod now.

马克：这么说吧，电子烟的烟油里尼古丁少多了，烟油就是装进笔式电子烟或者盒式电子烟里的东西。我现在有一只Mod.

Jingjing: Well, then it's a small step in the right direction.

京晶：这可是方向正确的的一小步啊！

Mark: Uh huh. I admire people who can quit altogether.

马克：可不咋滴。我真心欣赏那些两种都能全戒的人。

New words: 习语短语

chimney 烟囱，形容老烟民

someone who smokes all the time

go through 消耗

use

vape pen 笔式电子烟

a kind of electric cigarette, shaped like a pen

nicotine 尼古丁

the drug found in cigarettes

out of my system out of my body

e-juice 烟油

the liquid used in electric cigarettes

mod 盒式电子烟

another kind of electric cigarette, box-shaped

Dialogue 2

Jingjing and Mark are at the restaurant.

京晶和马克在餐厅里用餐

Jingjing: Is this table ok?

京晶：这张桌子行吗？

Mark: Sure. I actually like being near the door.

马克：没问题。事实上我喜欢靠近一点门。

Jingjing: Just don't step outside for a smoke. I'm keeping an eye on you from now on.

京晶：别走出去抽一口啊。从现在开始我要监督着你。

Mark: Don't worry about it. I've gone for more than a year already. Besides, it's great that not so many people smoke in public nowadays.

马克：不用担心。我都戒了一年多了。再说了，现在没有多少人在公共场合吸烟了，挺好的。

Jingjing: You said it. I remember, just a few years ago, people would light up in restaurants and all sorts of places.

京晶：说得是啊。我记得，几年前吧，人们在餐馆和各种各样的地方抽烟。

Mark: Yeah, that took a few years to change. But, now, people are a lot more considerate.

马克：是啊，花了些年头改变呢。现在，人们更加体谅他人了。

Jingjing: Yep. An article I read in China Daily said that there are 1 percent fewer smokers in Beijing than there were two years ago.

京晶：我读过一篇中国日报的文章说与两年前相比，北京的吸烟者已经少了1%。

Mark: That's a big decrease.

马克：下降幅度真大啊！

Jingjing: It is: 200,000 fewer people smoking. The article also said the public smoking ban is 95% effective now. In 2015, only 77% of public places passed inspection.

京晶：烟民少了20万人。文章还说公共场合禁烟有效率95%。在2015年，只有77%的公众场所通过了审查。

Mark: It's definitely an improvement, not having second-hand smoke around you when you go out to eat.

京晶：出门吃个饭不吸二手烟了确实是一大进步。

Jingjing: What's more, we can hope that fewer teenagers will try cigarettes.

京晶：再有了，我们可以期待未来更少的年轻人会尝试学抽烟了。

Mark: That's an important change. If people no longer think of it as normal to smoke, there could be a steady decrease in the number of new smokers.

马克：这可是一个重要的改变。如果人们不再认为吸烟是正常的，新烟民的数量就会持续减少。

Jingjing: Let's hope our public places here in Beijing get better and better.

京晶：让我们希望北京的公共场所会越来越好（干净清洁）。

Jingjing

New words: 习语短语

keeping an eye on you 监督你

watching someone to make sure they don't do something bad

light up 点燃烟

start smoking a cigarette

considerate 体谅的，考虑他人的

thoughtful of others, keeping people comfortable

decrease 大量减少

change from a large number to a smaller number

inspection 审查，检查

when officials go to see if people are following rules

second-hand smoke 二手烟

smoke in the air, breathed by people who aren't smoking