in between阅读中常遇见，意思说难不难，但要理解透并用好也不易。
Every morning Mr Van Cleve and Bennett would head off in Mr Van Cleve’s motor-car to the mine and return shortly after six. In between, Alice would find herself whiling away the hours in a house that wasn’t hers. 这里的in between指的是从早上到晚上6点之间的时间段，语法功能做时间状语。（TIME）
Granny and Elsa used to watch the evening news together. Now and then Elsa would ask Granny why grown-ups were always doing such idiotic things to each other. Granny usually answered that it was because grown-ups are generally people, and people are generally shits. Elsa countered that grown-ups were also responsible for a lot of good things in between all the idiocy—space exploration, the UN, vaccines, and cheese slicers, for instance. Granny then said the real trick of life was that almost no one is entirely a shit and almost no one is entirely not a shit. The hard part of life is keeping as much on the not-a-shit side as one can. （EVENT）
这段话很有意思，舍不得只放in between一句，索性全放在这里。说的是成人为什么老做蠢事傻事。奶奶说因为成人是shit啊，Elsa反驳道也不全是啊，成人在做蠢事之间也做了很多好事的。（responsible for a lot of good things in betweenall the idiocy）然后老奶奶就讲人生道理了。没有谁是一无是处，但人生难就难在尽可能保持好的一面。
Seen from the stands, you’re either a genius or utterly worthless, never anything in between. （EVENT）
你要么是天才要么毫无用处，绝没有天资平平一说。
The partners sold, and thought; the young analysts did most of the work. The run-of-the-mill consultants pretended to do something useful in between, and were expensive.这句话讲的是在咨询公司价值最大的是顶层和底层。顶层出智，底层出力，中间层假装做一些很有用的事情，而且要价很高。这里in between指的是高层和底层之间。
She had gone over the very next day to meet the baby and in between cooing over the child heard Linda recount the story.关键点是在哄孩子的时候还听Linda说了一件事。
She said that the woman next to her picked her nose in betweenshredding the chicken for the chicken Caesar wraps.’ （EVENT）关键点是处理鸡肉的时候还抠鼻子。
所以，发现没有，这个短语可以用来表达汉语的...的时候做了什么事情。
In between hand washings and dry-cleanings, you can easily “freshen up” your special-care garments with an at-home dry-cleaning system, available at your local grocery store for about $15.再来一个，在手洗和干洗之间。
活学活用一个，在洗脸和刷牙的间隙，跟女儿聊了聊她喜欢的动画片。 i had a little chat with my daughter about her favorite cartoon in between washing the face and brushing teeth.
Baseball in the summer, football in the fall, hockey in the winter, basketball in all the spaces in between.夏天玩棒球，秋天踢足球，冬天玩曲棍球，其余时间打篮球。
早上看书，中午做饭，下午锻炼身体，其余时间看孩子。reading in the morning, cooking in the noon, working out in the afternoon, and looking after my children in between.
