雅思口语素材：悠闲舒适的生活

　　连续两天，早晨5点就起床了。起来洗澡，洗衣服，然后坐在电脑前面写东西，喝一杯白开水。外面依然是冬天和暗夜。

　　阅读的心得，和大家分享。

　　an entirely new phase of existencea 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.

　　尤其是后面两个句子，说花钱大手大脚，就是spend money with a free hand非常形象的表达，如果说挥金如土可以写成 squander money like water 但是最为美丽的是后面却用了一个interested eye 这个表达方法。

　　infeste the opera也是一个非常有意思的说法，infest有两个含义，第一是：to spread or swarm in or over in a troublesomemanner 比如 a slum infested with crime就是说一个犯罪成灾的贫民窟，再比如 shark-infested waters说这片水域里面鲨鱼非常多。

　　第二个是 to live in or on as a parasite 像寄生在上面似的。如果说某人对非常上瘾，就可以说infest。

　　首句中Butterfly idleness说作者自己清闲得如同蝴蝶一样这样的修辞是我们自己创造不出来的。而通过阅读，就学会了。

　　如果雅思口语考题问你闲时候都怎么度过，你就可以用到这个单词了。你可以说：...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...