业余爱好Interests and Hobbies篇

 　　Interests and Hobbies

　　I: Do you have any special interests other than your job?

　　C: Yes. Taking pictures is my special interest. / Yes. My chief interest is watching horse-races. / Yes. Music and painting are my two great interests inltfe.

　　I: What are your personal interests?

　　C: My personal interests are collecting coins and stamps. / Table tennis and swimming are my personal interests. / My chief personal interest is to collect antiques¹.

　　I: Do you have a hobby?

　　C: Yes. I like reading and fishing. / Yes. I enjoy listening to classical music. / Yes. I'm fond of calligraphy².

　　I: What kinds of hobbies do you have?

　　C: I like collecting calligraphical works and paintings. / I enjoy sports. / I'm fond of playing the piano.

　　I: What are your hobbies?

　　C: My hobbies are cooking every day and dancing on weekends. / Playing chess is my hobby. / Playing computer games and playing bridge are my two great hobbies.

　　I: What do you do when you are not working?

　　C: I usually read books or straighten my house or go shopping. / On weekends I sometimes make an excursion to the suburbs with my family. / I often go mountain-climbing with rny friends on Sundays.

　　I: How do you spend your free (leisure, spare ) time?

　　C: I play the violin together with a group of friends. / I run or play basketball or do something else like that to get some exercises to keep fit. / I spend my free time in doing some sculpture with clay.

　　I: What do you do for recreation?

　　C: I sometimes go to the sing-high club on weekends. / I usually listen to pop music for recreation. / In summer I like swimming and in winter I generally play football.

　　I: How do you entertain yourself after work?

　　C: I usually watch TV for entertainment. / I sometimes go to the concert (theater, cinema) with my family. / I generally entertain myself in sports ( reading,painting).

　　I: What kinds of sports do you like? And do you play or watch?

　　C: I enjoy almost all sports. And prefer playing to watching. / I like gymnastics. I was on the gymastics team all through middle school. / I'm a football fan. But I don't play and just enjoy watching football matches.

　　I: What kinds of books do you like?

　　C: I like detective novels. / I'm fond of scientific fiction. / I enjoy readittg biographies³, especially those of well known statesmen⁴, militairists*, scientists, and rtists. I can learn a lot from their life histories.

　　I: Who are your favorite authors ?

　　C: Lu Shun⁵ and Ba Jin are my favorite authors. / My favorite Chinese authors are Lao She, Mao Dun, and Cao Yu. And my favorite foreign men of letters are Shakespeare, Gorky, and Whitman. / I like the novels of Dickens very mach. I've read almost all of them in Chinese translation. I wish I could read them in the original1 hear they're even better then.

　　I: Do you drink?

　　C: No, not a bit. / Yes, a little. / Yes, I do. But I never drink to excess.

　　I: Do you smoke? / Are you a smoker⁶?

　　C; No, I don't (am not). / Yes, just during social ccasions. I never like it. / Yes, but I'm not a heavy smoker.

1 antiques   

n.古玩，古董，古物( antique的名词复数 )

参考例句：

• The room was furnished with antiques. 房间里摆放了古董。
• a priceless collection of antiques 价值连城的古文物收藏

2 calligraphy   

n.书法

参考例句：

• At the calligraphy competition,people asked him to write a few characters.书法比赛会上，人们请他留字。
• His calligraphy is vigorous and forceful.他的书法苍劲有力。

3 biographies   

n.传记( biography的名词复数 )

参考例句：

• There are plenty of biographies for him to browse over. 有大量传记供他浏览。 来自辞典例句
• He likes to read biographies of great men to promote himself. 他喜欢读伟人传记来提高自己。 来自互联网

4 statesmen   

政治家； 政治家( statesman的名词复数 )

参考例句：

• There is a wide gap between the views of the two statesmen. 关于这点，两位政治家的政见有很大分歧。
• The statesmen signed a protocol. 那些政治家签了议定书。

5 shun   

vt.避开，回避，避免

参考例句：

• Materialists face truth,whereas idealists shun it.唯物主义者面向真理，唯心主义者则逃避真理。
• This extremist organization has shunned conventional politics.这个极端主义组织有意避开了传统政治。

6 smoker   

n.吸烟者，吸烟车厢，吸烟室

参考例句：

• His wife dislikes him to be a smoker.他妻子不喜欢他当烟民。
• He is a moderate smoker.他是一个有节制的烟民。