我不喝酒,但从30岁那年开始抽烟,先是偶尔为之,后来上了瘾。在文化部工作那十年,每天两包(40支),连手指也熏黄了,到晚上唇干舌燥,也毫无戒意。当然,这中间也有曲折,进秦城之后,被强制戒了,但回家后,第一件事就是向家人要烟。为了检验自己的意志力,主动戒了几个月,没有事,又抽上了。有人在报刊上写文章讲吸烟有害,我认为,这是危言耸听,有逆反心理。歪道理的理由是,我烟龄几十年还活到这把年纪。奇怪的是,两年前的一个早上,点上第一支烟,觉得不是滋味,掐灭了,从此,不戒自戒。在我的吸烟史上画了一个句号。
I’m a teetotaler, but I began to smoke at the age of 30. At first I did it only occasionally, but later I became addicted to it. During the ten years when I was with the Ministry of Culture, I used to consume two packs a day, containing 40 cigarettes, till my fingers were yellowed and my lips and tongue parched. But I still couldn’t get out of the tobacco habit. Smoking was banned in prison, but as soon as I was released the first thing I did was to ask my folks for a cigarette. Once, by way of testing my willpower, I stopped smoking for several months, but only to end up in a relapse. Some people dwelled on the harmfulness of smoking in articles published in newspaper or magazines. To me, however, they were exaggerating things just to scare people and sort of manifesting a rebellious mentality. I reasoned lamely that decades of heavy smoking hadn’t shortened my life at all. Strange to say, early on a certain morning two years ago, my first cigarette of the day happened to be so sickening that I stubbed it out immediately and from then on smoked no more. That marked the beginning of my clean break with cigarettes.
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