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Interpreting Unit 10 Leisure and Play About the Text The text is taken from the book Understanding Leisure (London: Hutchinson, 1989) by Les Haywood, Frank Kew and Peter Bramhan. play leisure Leisure is the time when you are not working, can relax, and do things you enjoy. Play refers to recreation or playing games. Paraphrase (1) “Play” is an important characteristic in many aspects of leisure practice. Many of leisure activities are characterized by “play”, which means “recreation” or “playing games” for fun. Betray betray: ① be disloyal or unfaithful to: To betray one’s friend ② show or reveal sth. unintentionally: Her trembling hands betrayed her nervousness. Paraphrase (2) Its use in the language constantly betrays its centrality… The use of the word “play” in the language frequently reveals its importance… go as far as go as far as: go to such an extent to; even (以至于；甚至于；居然) She’s got such a bad temper that she once went as far as fighting with her boyfriend. Paraphrase (3) …goes as far as identifying play as basic to culture and the development of civilization. …even suggests that play is a basic part of culture and a factor that helps develop civilization. bedeviled bedevil: confuse, cause continual difficulty and trouble If you are bedeviled by something unpleasant, it causes you a lot of problems over a period of time. (FORMAL) His career was bedeviled by injury. The development has been bedeviled with problems. ascribe…to… ascribe…to…: think of sth. as the result or work of; regarding as belonging For many years these poems were wrongly ascribed to Marlows. He ascribed his failure to bad luck. You can’t ascribe the same meaning to both words. Paraphrase (4) …“play” appears bedeviled by confusions about its very nature, due to contradictions between fact and ideal, and between play’s qualities and the functions often ascribed to it. …because there is a mismatch between fact and ideal and between the qualities and functions of pla