喜樂美語
  1. 1rB2/əˈkeɪʒənəli/偶爾

    Sometimes, but not often and not in a regular way.

    示範例句 · Example

    Mei occasionally walks to school when the weather is nice.

    逐字美偶爾在天氣好的時候走路上學。

    「occasionally」講的是「有時候，但次數不多、也不規律」——比 sometimes 更少一點。日常口語台灣人常說的 once in a while 就是它的白話版，occasionally 稍微正式一些。放句首或動詞前都可以。

    常見搭配

    • very occasionally

      非常偶爾、難得一次

      almost never, only a few times

      He lives abroad, so we only see him very occasionally.

    • stir occasionally

      煮的時候偶爾攪一下

      stir something now and then while cooking

      Cover the pot and cook, stirring occasionally.

    • occasionally happen

      偶爾發生

      to take place a few times, not regularly

      Mistakes like this occasionally happen.

    意思相近

    sometimesnow and thenfrom time to timeonce in a whileevery so often

core核心畫面

You can picture occasionally as a few scattered dots on a long line of time — it does happen, but the gaps between are wide and the dots fall wherever they fall, with no pattern you could predict.

可以想成一條長長的時間線上，零星散落的幾個小點：事情確實會發生，但點跟點之間隔得很開，而且落在哪裡沒有規律，你事先猜不到下一次是什麼時候。這正是它跟 sometimes 的差別——sometimes 只說「有時候」，occasionally 還多帶了「次數不多、也不固定」的味道。

容易混在一起的字在訂閱裡。容易混在一起的字需要訂閱帳號。

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意思相近

sometimesnow and thenfrom time to timeonce in a whileevery so often

原始詞典資料3 筆記錄

以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，摘錄並精簡格式，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。

occasionallyadv/əˈkeɪʒənəli/

  • 1

    On occasion: at relatively infrequent intervals, from time to time, sometimes.

    • God ſetteth no houres for the morning or evening ſacrifice because they may occaſionally be changed.
    • Some perhaps worship only on alternate Sundays; others still more occasionally.
  • 2

    obsoleteOn an occasion, accidentally, by chance.

    • Mr Tourville occasionally told his age; just turned of thirty-one.
    • [N]othing gave him so much joy in conversation, as an opportunity of giving the company to understand, how well he was with persons of distinguished rank and character: he would often (for example) observe, as it were occasionally, that the duke of G— was one of the best natured men in the world […].
  • 3

    obsoleteOn the occasion of something else happening; incidentally, by the way.

    • Were nothing els diſcourſively inſerted (as ſome little elſe occaſionally preſented it ſelfe), what paper more currently fit for the bareſt mechanicall uſes, [...]
    • I think it is plain, that Origen, whatever Character he may have occaſionally given of this Book, did not judge it any part of the Canon...

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