They tend to spend more time apart than together.
他们总是聚少离多.
apart 就是“分开”的意思, spend more time apart 就是说“分开的时间很多”, together 是“在一起”的意思, spend more time apart than together 也就是“聚少离多”的意思。
发音
我们在读这句话的时候,要注意 tend 和尾音 /d /,因为后面接的是其他辅音,所以可以失音爆破不发出来,跟后面的 to 连在一起,也就是读作 tend to.
重点拓展
我们一起来拓展学习一下和恋爱状态有关的短语吧:
Cold violence冷暴力
- The harm of cold violence in family 家庭冷暴力的危害及防治对策。
- The third section concentrates on the causes of education cold violence in secondary vocational schools. 第三部分集中分析中等职业学校教育冷暴力产生的原因。
Respect each other like guests相敬如宾
- Later,this idiom means a couple treat each other with respect as if the other were their guests. 后来,人们用“相敬如宾”来表示夫妻之间互相尊重,好像客人一般。
- This couple respects each other like guests. 这是一对相敬如宾的好夫妻。
Be stranger形同陌路
- The couple might as well have been strangers.这对夫妇形同陌路。
- She treated me as if I had been a stranger. 他对我很冷淡,形同陌路人。