看，禁止吸烟，No Smoking.
这让我想起新概念二78课The last one？最后一支吗？
After reading an article entitled 'Cigarette Smoking and Your Health' I lit a cigarette to calm my nerves.
读完一篇叫『吸烟与你的健康』后，我点了一支烟镇定我的神经
I smoked with concentration and pleasure as I was sure that this would be my last cigarette.
我专注并愉悦地抽了一支因为我坚信这将是我最后一支
For a whole week I did not smoke at all and during this time, my wife suffered terribly.
整整一周我都没抽烟，此间我的妻子很遭罪。
I had all the usual symptoms of someone giving up smoking: a bad temper and an enormous appetite.
我出现了别人戒烟的所有症状：坏脾气和大食欲
My friends kept on offering me cigarettes and cigars.
我的朋友们一直给我递烟哥雪茄
They made no effort to hide their amusement whenever I produced a packet of sweets from my pocket.
每当我从口袋里拿出一袋糖时他们毫不掩盖他们对这件事感到的可笑
After seven days of this I went to a party. Everybody around me was smoking and I felt extremely uncomfortable.
7天后我去了一个聚会。我身边的每个人都在抽烟，我感到极不舒服
When my old friend Brian urged me to accept a cigarette, it was more than I could bear.
当我的老朋友Brian催我接受一支时，我忍不了了
I took one guiltily, lit it and smoked with satisfaction.
我愧疚地拿了一支，点燃了它满足地吸起来
My wife was delighted that things had returned to normal once more.
我妻子很高兴，因为情况又一次恢复了常态。
Anyway, as Brian pointed out, it is the easiest thing in the world to give up smoking. He himself has done it lots of times!
不管怎样，正如Brian指出的：戒烟是这个世界上最容易的事。他已经做过很多次了。