情景会话口袋书人际篇234:玩电脑游戏(2)

 　　5. How often do you play games on the computer?

　　你多久玩一次电脑游戏？

　　还能这样说：

　　How much time do you play games on computer?

　　At what intervals¹ do you play computer games?

　　谚语：

　　Very often a change of self is needed more than a change of scene.

　　改变自己往往比改变环境更为需要。

　　6. We come here every two days to play computer games.

　　我们隔天就来玩电脑游戏。

　　还能这样说：

　　We come here to play computer games every other day.

　　We are here to play computer games every second day.

　　应用解析：

　　any day 随便哪一天；毫无疑问；

　　off day 休息日；

　　to a day 恰好；

　　to this day 迄今；直到今天

　　7. Amy is tired of playing computer games.

　　艾米讨厌玩电脑游戏。

　　还能这样说：

　　Amy doesn't like playing computer games.

　　Amy has a dislike of playing computer games.

　　应用解析：

　　prefer doing to talking 喜欢做而不喜欢说；

　　prefer to die rather than surrender² 宁死不屈；

　　prefer a change against a person 告发某人

　　8. Computer games have eaten up my spare time.

　　电脑游戏已经耗尽了我的业余时间。

　　还能这样说：

　　Playing games takes up too much of my time.

　　Playing games employs much of my time.

　　应用解析：

　　eat sb. out of house and home 把某人吃穷；

　　eat one's words 承认说错话；

　　eat like a horse 吃得很多

1 intervals   

n.[军事]间隔( interval的名词复数 )；间隔时间；[数学]区间；（戏剧、电影或音乐会的）幕间休息

参考例句：

• The forecast said there would be sunny intervals and showers. 预报间晴，有阵雨。
• Meetings take place at fortnightly intervals. 每两周开一次会。

2 surrender   

v.投降，自首；屈服；交出，放弃

参考例句：

• He preferred to die rather than surrender to the enemy.他宁死也不愿向敌人投降。
• Liu Hulan would rather die than surrender before the enemy.刘胡兰在敌人面前宁死不屈。