For the record, I have tried every drug and liked none, disproving the popular theory that a whiff of opium will enslave the mind Paraphrase: Here I want to tell you I have tried almost every drug to find out that I didn’t like any of them. In this way, my personal experience can prove that the popular belief is false that once you take even a small amount of drugs, you will be addicted to them. Phase：
（1）For the record: declared openly and officially so as to make known one’s disagreement,.
e.g. For the record, the police never charged me.郑重声明，警方根本没有起诉我
（2）a whiff of sth: a small amount of sth or a slight sign or feeing of sth. e.g. a whiff of onion, a whiff of fear /danger/success (3) enslave the mind: to affect people to the extent that they will lose control over their own lives.
Along with exhortation and warning, it might be good for our citizens to recall that the United States was the creation of men who believed that……as long as he does not interfere with his neighbor’s pursuit of happiness.
Paraphrase:While urging people not to take drugs and warning them of the dangers, we should remind our citizens that their country was
created by people who believed that we all have “certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness”(as expressed in the Declaration of Independence) Phase：
(1) It might be good to do sth: used for making a suggestion, giving advice, etc.
(2) Along with: in the same way as sb/sth
(3) To interfere with: to prevent sth from succeeding or from being done as planned
(1)No one can hear the warning rumble begin: if everyone is allowed to take drugs everyone will and we shall end up a race of Zombies Paraphrase: Now we can hear the loud warnings of those who oppose to legalization of drugs. They argue that if drug are legalized, every will become addicts, and our nation will become a race of Zombies in the end
(2)Alarming thought , Yet, it seems most unlikely that any reasonable sane person will become a drug addict if he knows in advance what addiction is going to be like.
Paraphrase: This sounds frightening. However, this is not likely to happen, because no sensible person will become addicted to drugs if he or she knows beforehand what harmful effects addiction will
bring. Phrase
(1)rumble:(the voice opposing legalizing drugs)loud sound
(2)End up: to be in a particular place or state after doing sth or because of doing it
e.g If you don’t mend your ways , you will end up a criminal (3)in advanced (of sth): beforehand; ahead of time
(1)Is everyone reasonably sane? No. Some people will always become alcoholics, and it is just too bad.
Paraphrase: True, not everyone is sensible. There are always some people who will become drug addicts just as there are always some people who will become alcoholics, It is unfortunate but we can’t help it.
(2)This psychological insight is, for some mysterious reason, always denied our governors.
Somehow, for some unknown reason, our leaders never seem to understand this. Phase:
(1)Nevertheless, forbidding people things they like or think they might enjoy only makes them want those things all the more.
All the more: even more than before. “All here is an adverb used for emphasis ”
All the better: even than before
(2)psychological insight: perception or knowledge about human psychology; the ability to understand human psychology.
(3)(sth)be denied sb: use a dictionary to check the various ways in which the word “deny” is used.