Our preacher, he was this 70-year-old chain smoker.

我们的牧师个七旬的老烟。

Jim is a chain smoker. He smokes one cigarette right after another.

吉姆个瘾君子。他烟根接着根抽。

He was a chain smoker who had millions bouncing around in his accounts.

他个烟鬼 账户里有几百万。

The theoretical physicist was a chain smoker who died due to complications regarding throat cancer.

奥本海位老烟，死于喉。

President Eisenhower, by the way, had been a four-pack-a-day chain smoker a couple of years before his heart attack.

顺便提下，艾森豪威尔总统在心脏病发作前，每天要抽 4 包烟。

And he is a chain smoker. He said, " I know, but I'm addicted. I find it very difficult to stop."

烟抽得很厉害。他说：“我知道，但我就上瘾了，很难戒掉。”

To maintain the positive feelings that nicotine creates and avoid withdrawal, a person has to smoke a cigarette every 2 hours or so, to reach a steady state of nicotine in the blood - and that helps explain why individuals become chain smokers.

为了维持尼古丁带来的愉悦感，防止戒断综合征，吸烟者不得不每两小时吸次烟，以维持血液中尼古丁水平的稳定，这也就解释了为什么烟瘾大的人会根接根地抽。