At intervals her hand holding the cigarette would pass the spot on her neck.

他又郁闷又紧张,时不时地那个女人手中的烟灰。

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I was just sitting outside smoking a cigarette a couple of weeks ago.

几周前，我正坐在外面抽烟。

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They can't do something like wave goodbye or light a cigarette.

他们无法做到诸如挥手再见,或是点香烟这样的动作

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Let's say you want to see how something like cigarette smoking is changing in the population and the rates of cigarette smoking, and you want to look at people every five years from 1970 to 2000.

比如你想知道,人群中吸烟者的人数变化,和吸烟者的比例,在1970年至2000年每五年的情况

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There was a famous case in the 1970s or '80s, there was a family called Trognon, and a trognon is a cigarette butt, and when they tried to adopt a baby, it would be called, let's say Jean-Philippe Trognon, they said,"oh,no, that baby would be damaged by having such a last name; you don't have the right to adopt this baby."

在上世纪七八十年代有一个出名的案例中,这家人姓特鲁侬,意思是香烟屁股,他们想要领养一个婴儿,取名为,简·菲利佩·特鲁侬,法国人说,不不,取这样一个名字有损于这个婴儿,你们不能领养这个孩子

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In order, prior to lighting your cigarette you can ask your friends, "Do you mind if I smoke?"

在点燃你的烟之前，出于礼貌，你可以询问你的朋友，“Do you mind if I smoke?”

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That little J shaped curve is explained primarily by cigarette smoking because that keeps weight down in people, it also makes people sick so that their weight gets low because of that, and it explains the high rates of the disease risk there.

这个小J形曲线主要是由吸烟引起的,因为吸烟一方面能让体重降低,另一方面也引起疾病,疾病让人们的体重下降,这也解释了这里的高患病风险

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