編者按：《禁煙》是一篇英語(yǔ)寓言故事，講述的是一家公司在會(huì)議上講述抽煙這個(gè)話題，用提示板寫(xiě)出不準(zhǔn)吸煙的故事。

　　Mrs. Green was the manager of a large company and she frequently had to have meetings with other business people in a room in her building. She did not smoke at all, but many of the other people at the meetings did, so she often found the air during the meetings terrible.

　　One day,after an hour, her throat and eyes were sore and she was coughing a lot, so she called a big air conditioning company and asked them to work out how much it would cost to keep the air of the meeting room in her building really clean.

　　After a few days the air conditioning company sent in two estimates for Mrs. Green to choose from. One estimate1 was for $5,000 to put in new air conditioning, and the other was for $5.00 for a sign which said, NO SMOKING.

　　格林女士是一家大型公司的總經(jīng)理，她經(jīng)常在公司會(huì)議室開(kāi)一些商業(yè)會(huì)議。她從不抽煙，但是會(huì)上許多人都愛(ài)抽煙，弄得空氣很糟糕。因此，她經(jīng)常不得不在開(kāi)會(huì)的時(shí)候出來(lái)透透氣。

　　有一天，在開(kāi)了一個(gè)小時(shí)會(huì)以后，她感覺(jué)嗓子和眼睛酸疼，而且不?？人?。于是她給一家空調(diào)公司打電話，問(wèn)他們要使會(huì)議室的空氣保持清新需要花費(fèi)多少錢(qián)。

　　幾天后，空調(diào)公司的人給格林女士提供了兩個(gè)報(bào)價(jià)：

　　1，花5000美元裝一部新的空調(diào);

　　2，花5美元制作一塊提示牌，上面寫(xiě)：不準(zhǔn)吸煙!

　　frequently['frikwəntli]：頻繁地

　　sore[sɔr]：疼痛的

　　air conditioning：空調(diào)

　　estimate['ɛstə,met]：估計(jì)，估價(jià)

　　公眾號(hào)：英語(yǔ)故事課堂

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