【一起闲话英语】对什么上瘾-Addiction

 Arienne, Norway

speaker What am I addicted¹ to? Unfortunately, I'm addicted to smoking², which is really bad because cigarettes are very bad for everyone's body and health basically³. In Norway, where I'm from, we're not allowed to smoke ins restaurants, whereas⁴ a lot of other places in the world people smoke in restaurants, so when I'm abroad it makes it very difficult to try to quit, which I have many times.

 

Jeff, Canada

speaker I'm addicted to exercise, physical activity. I played sports all my life and I do it every day and I need to do it every day and if I don't do it every day then I don't feel very good so I'm addicted to sports.

 

Fred, Canada

speaker What am I addicted to? Well, I believe I am addicted to going to the gym every day. When I have a lot of work from school, or I feel stressed⁵ out, it really relieves⁶ me from quite a bit of pressure and so I think going to the gym is a good thing for me.

 

Kevin, Korea⁷

speaker Oh, I'm addicted to sweets. I like to eat chocolates, cookies, especially puddings. These puddings are really good. I my fridge I have... I always keep at least three or four puddings, always there ready for eating.

 

Reky, Indonesia⁸

speaker I'm addicted to TV shows. Now there is a very interesting TV show called Heroes. It comes every Monday night, so I usually download it and I can watch it. I like heroes because it's a fiction story and there are very interesting characters inside it. And the character, the people have supernatural power, so people... someone can disappear or read people's minds or can do many different things, so I kind of like it. It's very interesting.

 

Rebecca, Australia

speaker What am I addicted to? I am addicted to chocolate. I can eat chocolate every morning, lunch and dinner. My favorite chocolate is milk chocolate. I do like white chocolate as well, and I also love bananas, chocolate and ice-cream all together. That is my favorite meal of the day... is chocolate.

 

 

1 addicted   

adj.沉溺于....的，对...上瘾的

参考例句：

• He was addicted to heroin at the age of 17.他17岁的时候对海洛因上了瘾。
• She's become addicted to love stories.她迷上了爱情小说。

2 smoking   

n.吸烟，抽烟；冒烟

参考例句：

• He was wise to give up smoking.他戒烟是明智的。
• He has decided to cut out smoking and drinking.他已决心戒烟、戒酒。

3 basically   

adv.基本上，从根本上说

参考例句：

• His heart is basically sound.他的心脏基本上健康。
• Basically I agree with your plan.我基本上同意你的计划。

4 whereas   

conj.而，却，反之

参考例句：

• They want a house,whereas we would rather live in a flat.他们想要一座房子，而我们宁愿住在一套房间里。
• Some praise him,whereas others condemn him.有些人赞扬他，而有些人谴责他。

5 stressed   

adj.紧张的，有压力的

参考例句：

• Loud music makes me stressed out.大声的音乐让我很紧张。
• He stressed that we should always be honest.他强调我们应该永远诚实。

6 relieves   

v.解除( relieve的第三人称单数 )；缓解；换班；（去厕所的一种委婉说法）方便

参考例句：

• Your coming relieves me of the bother of writing a long letter. 你来了省得我去麻烦写一封长信了。 来自辞典例句
• The bypass relieves traffic jams in our city centre. 这条旁道缓解了我们城市中心的交通阻塞情况。 来自辞典例句

7 Korea   

n.朝鲜(亚洲)

参考例句：

• Korea lies to the east of China.韩国位于中国东面。
• Korea and China are separated by only the Yalu River.朝鲜和中国只隔一条鸭绿江。

8 Indonesia   

n.印度尼西亚

参考例句：

• You see,I stayed in Indonesia for eight years.你知道，我在印度尼西亚呆了8年。
• Indonesia has more active volcanoes than any other country.印尼是世界上活火山最多的国家。