At intervals her hand holding the cigarette would pass the spot on her neck.

他又郁闷又紧张,时不时地那个女人手中的烟灰。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

Let's say you want to see how something like cigarette smoking is changing in the population and the rates of cigarette smoking, and you want to look at people every five years from 1970 to 2000.

比如你想知道,人群中吸烟者的人数变化,和吸烟者的比例,在1970年至2000年每五年的情况

耶鲁公开课 - 关于食物的心理学、生物学和政治学课程节选

There was a famous case in the 1970s or '80s, there was a family called Trognon, and a trognon is a cigarette butt, and when they tried to adopt a baby, it would be called, let's say Jean-Philippe Trognon, they said,"oh,no, that baby would be damaged by having such a last name; you don't have the right to adopt this baby."

在上世纪七八十年代有一个出名的案例中,这家人姓特鲁侬,意思是香烟屁股,他们想要领养一个婴儿,取名为,简·菲利佩·特鲁侬,法国人说,不不,取这样一个名字有损于这个婴儿,你们不能领养这个孩子

耶鲁公开课 - 1871年后的法国课程节选