情景英语:中级美语对话(第106讲)
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106. What a Dilemma1! p.228

  Hoping to persuade her boyfriend to quit smoking, Jenny makes him an offer.

  J: If you quit smoking, I'll marry you.

  B: I don't want to make a promise I can't keep.

  J: Is it that hard to quit smoking?

  B: Well. You know I've tried many times already.

  J: But this time you've got a big incentive2 to do it.

  B: Uh… I'm not sure.

  J: What aren't you sure about?

  B: I do want to stop smoking. But if I do. I'll have to get married.

  J: So?

  B: I'm not so sure if I want to get married.

  J: Well. You can't eat your cake and have it, too.

  B: What a dilemma!

  be in dilemma = be in predicament

  be addicted3 to 上瘾   a chain smoker4 连续抽烟的人

  My father persuaded my younger brother to study hard.

  to dissuade5 sb from smoking 劝阻某人不要做

  John offered to take us to dinner after the test.     made an offer to take……

  I married with him. 错   应说:I married him. or: I married to him.

  make/keep/break a promise

  They loved each other at first sight. 一见钟情    不说:at the first sight

  incentive n.诱因

  sth be a good catch 钓大鱼

  The teacher told us that if we all passed the test, she would take us out to dinner. What a great incentive!

  be sure of = be certain of


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