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infrequent

/in-free-kwuhnt/US // ɪnˈfri kwənt //UK // (ɪnˈfriːkwənt) //

不经常,不常有,不常发生,不常

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Definitions

adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1
    • : happening or occurring at long intervals or rarely: infrequent visits.
    • : not constant, habitual, or regular: an infrequent visitor.
    • : not plentiful or many: infrequent opportunities for advancement.
    • : far apart in space.

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Examples

  • Satellite imagery, which has historically been produced, paid for, and shared freely by public space agencies, has been limited to infrequent images with coarse resolution.

  • Your monthly budget should take into account the fact that there are infrequent, yet predictable expenses you’ll need to take care of on occasion.

  • Still, the number may well grow, as new and infrequent voters tend to vote close to, or on, Election Day.

  • The safety benchmarks are higher for vaccines than for other drugs because vaccines are given to vastly more people, which magnifies infrequent problems.

  • As the years rolled on, though, our encounters became more infrequent.

  • My period is light and infrequent, no cramps, no weight gain, no pregnancy, no problem.

  • Her appearances are infrequent enough so that they soon become the most exciting part of the game.

  • We know that failure of justice is not infrequent; it just never had such a cringeworthy label.

  • Those sorts of encounters between Israeli Jews and Palestinian Arabs are far too infrequent.

  • And although there may be abuse, in well-managed companies it is quite infrequent.

  • Occasionally the nucleus is irregular in shape, "clover-leaf" forms being not infrequent.

  • It was not in the room known at the red house as Mr. Royall's "office" that he received his infrequent clients.

  • It is curious that the close o is heard only in the infrequent diphthong óu, or as an obscured, unaccented final.

  • Open ruptures were infrequent now, although they were innumerable during the first months of their companionship.

  • The opposite change to greater liveliness of disposition is not unknown, but is more infrequent.