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occasionally

/uh-key-zhuh-nl-ee/US // əˈkeɪ ʒə nl i //UK // (əˈkeɪʒənəlɪ) //

偶尔,偶而,偶尔的,偶尔也会

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Definitions

adv.副词 adverb
  1. 1
    • : at times; from time to time; now and then.

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Examples

  • The young woman receiving Clarkson’s texts is a state employee whose job requires her to occasionally interact with the attorney general.

  • They have occasionally shown a willingness to swing the ball side-to-side and get Embiid good position on duck-ins, but that willingness tends not to last, and before long they are back straining to make entry passes on stagnant post-ups.

  • Though their defensive experiments might occasionally end in losses, they exemplify what has made this year’s squad a serious threat to get back to the NBA Finals even after losing arguably the best player in the league in Kawhi Leonard.

  • Small, sharpened stones were also found among grass and ash remains, suggesting that people occasionally sat on cave bedding while making stone tools.

  • When Sims and Humphries analyzed Berni’s results in 2015, they found that normal larvae placed on an expanse of agar containing no food occasionally moved in a way that approximated a Lévy walk.

  • We won't find out this season, though it comes up occasionally.

  • His peers remember him as a bright man who spoke softly and occasionally came across as a bit shy.

  • Occasionally, a level will take 20 or more strokes to complete.

  • Occasionally a pamphlet for a salsa class might be tossed on a doorstop or stuck on a pole near a bus stop.

  • A male and female who do most of the mating dominate packs, and younger subordinates only breed occasionally.

  • He conducts this ceremony with the greatest solemnity, occasionally pronouncing these incantatory words, "Plate or shell, sah?"

  • Occasionally this artist has painted genre subjects, but her real success has not been in this direction.

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

  • Occasionally, over a narrow stream, a frail footbridge would be built.

  • Occasionally faint sounds came from the distance—the movements of cleaners at work, a raised voice, the slamming of a door.