Isn't it more correct to say, "It is a bit windy"? The weather is good or bad. The weather is not windy. It is windy. The "it" is a formal subject and is not a pronoun for "the weather".

The important language point here is that "free time" is uncountable, and therefore you need to delete the article "a". A more native way of saying what you want to say is, "What do you do in your spare time?"

You need a context. The correct English word or words depend on the context. To believe that each Chinese word corresponds to an English equivalent irrespective of context is a big fundamental conceptual error.

HM Forces = Her Majesty's Forces 全译为"英国皇家军队"，简称"英军"。

Gordon, I think it is ambivalent. Neither interpretation is wrong but there is a preferred approach. I think "delicate and refined distaste" refers first and foremost to the doctor's ATTITUDE and frame of mind, and this description is a development from the earlier "seemed disturbed by the war". The patient, or Hemingway, sees this with his eyes. He sees the face; he notes the physical body frame and the body language - "thin quiet little man" who "seemed disturbed". The reader who can visualise (see it as a cinematic sequence of images) the scene understands it best. Hemingway has put in a number of adjectives to help the reader conjure up this cinematic scene: thin quiet little man disturbed delicate refined distaste fragile delicacy exhausted One can see this doctor vividly. He gives the impression of having a delicate temperament. His demeanour is refined but disturbed. This is the first visual image Hemingway sees. Then one sees him in action. He extracts some steel splinters. The principal thing that Hemingway notes is the distaste, somewhat concealed and yet perceptible; hence "refined". By extension, from "quiet", "little", "delicate" and "refined", the reader would infer the style of his surgery, as a matter of transferred epithet, to be quiet, restrained and delicate. So Hemingway, and the reader, sees the face first, before he moves on to feel the surgery. Note that the patient is under local anaethesia, and the afflicted part is "frozen". So the physical sensitivity is reduced. The scene is mainly felt visually. Hemingway sees the distaste. He sees the exhaustion. He sees the delicacy, refinement and fragility. It is all about the doctor's frame of mind, not so much about his surgery or surgical skill. This is how Hemingway has painted, or filmed, the scene. This is how the scene should be read.

I don't know about statistics, but it is true that the best foreign Chinese scholars here on italki are British.

May I speak the honest truth? 1. It is totally wrong to assume that the Chinese language behaves according to English grammar. 2. The nearest English equivalent to 我请你吃饭 is "Let me take you out for dinner" or "Let me buy dinner." In English grammar this is called the imperative mood. It is not a tense.