They point out that free-time activities play an important role in childhood development and that large amounts of homework reduce children's free time, hindering their development.

他们指出，业余活动在儿童发展中发挥着重要作用，大量的家庭作业减少了孩子的业余时间，阻碍了他们的发展。

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Right now (because it might change) my favorite free-time activities are sewing and reading books. Even if it’s just for half an hour or less.

如今（因为它极有可能改变），我最喜欢的消磨时光的活动是缝纫和阅读。

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This is time you could be spending with friends, family, hobbies or any number of other free-time activities. This isn't really anything new.

这些时间你本可以用来和家人朋友在一起、花在你的爱好或是其它什么闲时做的事情上，这确实没什么新鲜的。

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Well, if that's right, then should we say that the pervasiveness of death, ubiquitousness of death-- the thing that I was earlier suggesting was oppressive-- wouldn't it really be nice to have a death-free time or a death-free location or death-free activities?

如果是这样的话，那我们是不是应该说死亡的普遍性，死亡的无处不在性-,这些我之前所说的特征是不对的-,如果有死亡免疫时间或者死亡免疫地点,或者死亡免疫活动岂不是很好吗？

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