When work continued, one man lit a cigarette as he was working, but, finding it had a strange taste, he put it out.
随后他们继续干活，一个工人在干活时点燃了一支香烟。可是他觉得有一股怪味，他就把烟灭了。
高三英语课文
Unit 18 Office Equipment
📚 句中词汇解析
从本句中提取的重要词汇
cigarette
['sɪɡərɛt]
n. 纸烟，香烟;
💡 cigar雪茄+ette表名词 →香烟
"A cigarette set the dry grass alight ."
一支香烟把干草点燃了。
近义：cigaret, fag
n. 发现物;研究结果;调查（或研究）的结果;<律>（陪审团的）裁决;
v. 发现( find的现在分词);
💡 find发现+ ing构成抽象名词 → 发现；调查的结果
"There was the usual faff of finding somewhere to park the car."
找地方停车照例又是一番忙乱。
近义：invention, strike, disclosure, discovery, find, inference
vt.& vi. 使工作;使运作;操作;使产生效果;
n. 工作，操作;著作;工厂;行为，事业;
vt. 使工作;操作;经营;使缓慢前进;
"to be absent from work"
缺勤
近义：labor, labour, function, process, tool, malleate
反义：idle, laze, loaf, loiter, ramble, roam
continued
[kən'tinju:d]
adj. 继续的，延续的;
v. 继续，连续( continue的过去式和过去分词 );持续;逗留;停留;
"She continued to assert that she was innocent."
她仍然坚称自己无辜。
近义：prolonged, continual
n. 工作, 运转, 劳动\\na. 工作的, 劳动的, 经营的, 抽搐的, 运转的
近义：march, operation, performance, running, behavior, actuating