雅思口語“悠閑舒適生活”的表達

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連續(xù)兩天,早晨5點就起床了。起來洗澡,洗衣服,然后坐在電腦前面寫東西,喝一杯白開水。外面依然是冬天和暗夜。
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    an entirely new phase of existence—a butterfly idleness;nothing to do, nobody to be responsibleto, and untroubled with financial uneasiness...San Francisco was Paradise to me. I lived at the best hotel, exhibited my clothes in the most conspicuousplaces, infested the opera...I spend monty with a free hand, and meantime watched the stock sales with an interested eye.
    尤其是后面兩個句子,說花錢大手大腳,就是“spend money with a free hand"非常形象的表達,如果說“揮金如土”可以寫成 squander money like water 但是最為美麗的是后面卻用了一個interested eye 這個表達方法。
    infeste the opera也是一個非常有意思的說法,infest有兩個含義,第一是:to spread or swarm in or over in a troublesomemanner 比如 a slum infested with crime就是說一個犯罪成災的貧民窟,再比如 shark-infested waters說這片水域里面鯊魚非常多。
    第二個是 to live in or on as a parasite 像寄生在……上面似的。如果說某人對……非常上癮,就可以說infest。
    首句中Butterfly idleness說作者自己“清閑得如同蝴蝶一樣”這樣的修辭是我們自己創(chuàng)造不出來的。而通過閱讀,就學會了。
    如果雅思口語考題問你閑時候都怎么度過,你就可以用到這個單詞了。你可以說:...actually seldom do I have free time because I spend much time in working and learning. Learning is a life-long process. I learn music, language, and movie. Nevertheless, occasionally, I enjoy the butterfly idleness. It is an entirely new phase of existence. However, I am not the one who was born with a silver spoon in his mouth so I dare not spend the money with a free hand...