喜樂美語
  1. 1rB2/ˈseldəm/很少；難得

    正式not often; almost never.

    示範例句 · Example

    Anna seldom eats at home on weekdays.

    逐字安娜很少在平日在家吃飯。

    「seldom」是頻率副詞，核心意思是「很少、幾乎不做／幾乎不發生」。它跟 rarely 很近，但偏書面、語氣較正式；日常口語更常說 not very often 或 rarely。位置通常在一般動詞前（seldom eats）、be／助動詞後（is seldom late／has seldom seen）。一種想法是：把它想成頻率刻度靠近底部——比 never 高一點、比 sometimes 低很多——方便記憶，不是精密測量。

    常見搭配

    • seldom do / go / eat / see

      很少做／去／吃／看

      to do something not often (adverb before a main verb)

      Leo seldom watches TV after dinner.

    • be seldom + adjective

      很少處於某種狀態

      to be in a state not often

      She is seldom sick during the school year.

    • seldom used / seen / heard

      很少被使用／看見／聽見

      almost never used, seen, or heard

      That old word is seldom used in class now.

    • seldom, if ever

      難得；即便有也極少

      almost never; even when it happens, it is extremely rare

      They seldom, if ever, miss a practice.

    • Seldom have / do + subject ...

      Seldom 置於句首＋倒裝（正式強調）

      formal fronting: put seldom first, then flip aux + subject

      Seldom have I felt so proud of my team.

    • very seldom

      非常少；極難得

      extremely rarely

      I very seldom see my cousins during the week.

    意思相近

    rarelyhardly everscarcely evernot oftenalmost never

    用法接近

    occasionallyinfrequentlyonce in a while

core核心畫面

Mark a calendar every time it happens and you get a nearly empty page — a few scattered dots, long gaps between them. The word sits far down the frequency scale, close to never but not quite there.

可以想成：每發生一次就在月曆上點一個點，結果整頁幾乎空白——只有零星幾點，中間隔得很開。這個字落在頻率量尺的低端，靠近 never 但還沒到；比 sometimes 少得多，跟 rarely 差不多。

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。

意思相近

rarelyhardly everscarcely evernot oftenalmost never

用法接近

occasionallyinfrequentlyonce in a while

原始詞典資料2 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。

seldomadv/ˈsɛldəm/

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    Infrequently, rarely.

    • They seldom come here now.
    • I corralled the judge, and we started off across the fields, in no very mild state of fear of that gentleman's wife, whose vigilance was seldom relaxed.

seldomadj/ˈsɛldəm/

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    archaicRare; infrequent.

    • a suppressed and seldom anger
    • He was very curious in his garden, which was never out of order; in which he would at seldom times take a short walk or two, not enduring to see a weed in it.

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