英语短语：Go cold turkey突然停止遥李华忙着批改中文班学生的作业。
李华会从Larry那儿学到两个常用语：go easy on和go cold turkey。
LH: 哎!
这些学生!
看看他们的考卷儿，简直糟透了!
也不知道他们是不是真想学中文。
LL: Hey, go easy on your students, Li Hua.
They've only been studying Chinese for a few weeks.
It's a difficult language!
LH: 你说什么?
你要我把中文课改得再容易一点儿?
LL: That's not what I said, Li Hua.
I said you should go easy on them.
That means you should show some restraint - don't be too angry with them.
LH: Go easy on them，就是对他们宽容一点，别那么恼火。
可是Larry, 他们每天才学五个单词，要是你问我啊，I am going easy on them。
连这点较基本的中文都考不好，那还有什么希望呐!

LL: I just mean you shouldn't yell or get angry at them.
Why are you always in such a bad mood these days?
LH: 我这几天是情绪不好，没耐心，也不知道是什么原因，可能是因为咖啡喝得太多，晚上睡不好觉的缘故吧。
LL: A lot of coffee - huh?
No wonder you can't sleep well.
I think you should go easy on the coffee.
LH: Go easy on the coffee?
等等，Larry, 刚才你让我对学生要客气点儿 - go easy on my students，遥又说我应该go easy on the coffee，这又怎么解释呢?
LL: When I say "go easy on the coffee", I mean you should show some restraint and drink less coffee.
LH: Go easy on the coffee, 就是让我少喝点儿咖啡。
可是，go easy on the students就是要对学生客气点。
我不是太清楚，Larry, 你能不能再给我举个例子?
LL: Sure.
Whenever you see me drinking at a party, you always tell me to go easy on the beer.
LH: 对呀，每次参加party 的时候我都劝你别喝那么多啤酒，喝醉了会出洋相的!
哎哟，Look at this!
这个学生，五道题里只回答了一道，我只能给她不及格了。
LL: Hey, hey, don't give her an 'F'!
Go easy on her.
And go easy on the coffee, LH: 啊，我累死了!
LL: How are you feeling now that you're drinking less coffee?
LH: 嗯，我已经三天没喝咖啡了，晚上睡觉是好多了，可是白天我怎么老是觉得精力不够、昏昏沉沉的呢?
LL: No coffee for three days?
I told you to go easy on the coffee, not go cold turkey!
LH: Go cold turkey?
你在说什么呀?
你让我少喝咖啡，多吃冷火鸡呀?
LL: No, I said you went "cold turkey".
That means to suddenly quit doing or consuming something that is addictive.
LH: 噢，原来go cold turkey不是 “吃冷火鸡”呀!
Go cold turkey是“突然停止做那些习惯做的事，一下子戒掉原来上瘾的习惯”。
哎，Larry, 你觉得我过去喝咖啡到上瘾的程度了吗?
LL: Ok, you're not really addicted to coffee.
But quitting coffee isn't easy, right?
When I said you went cold turkey, It implied that quitting is not easy.
LH: 是啊，突然一下子一点儿咖啡都不喝了，是够难的，怪不得我老没精神呢!
不过Larry, 要把戒咖啡和戒烟相比，我看，戒烟恐怕更难吧?
LL: That's true.
One day, my friend Rick went cold turkey on cigarettes.
It almost drove him crazy, but he never smoked a cigarette again.
LH: Wow, 你的朋友Rick可真了不起，说戒烟一下子就戒掉了。
我记得我叔叔也试过一下子戒掉 - go cold turkey on cigarettes，可是他试了三次都没遥，不过他遥抽得比以前少多了。
LL: I'm glad your uncle is going easy on cigarettes.
遥李华从Larry那儿学到了两个常用语。
一个是go easy on someone 就是“对某人客气些”，要是说go easy on something，那就是“有节制地遥某件东西”。
李华学到的另一个常用语是go cold turkey on something, 意思是“突然停止做某件事”。