词汇 | infrequent |
释义 | infrequent adjective uk /ɪnˈfriː.kwənt/ us /ɪnˈfriː.kwənt/ not happening very often: 很少发生的,罕见的 His letters became infrequent, then stopped completely.他的信来得少了,之后干脆彻底不来了。 Synonym rare(NOT COMMON) Opposite frequent Rarely & infrequently (every) now and then/againidiom blue moon day episodic ever and anon few fit it's not every day (that)...idiom like ships that pass in the nightidiom occasion occasional occasionally odd one and doneidiom one-off one-shot one-time rarely stop-go ultra-rare Related wordinfrequently infrequent | American Dictionaryinfrequent adjective us/ɪnˈfri·kwənt/ not happening often; rare: Wiggins made one of his infrequent trips into Manhattan. infrequentlyadverbus/ɪnˈfri·kwənt·li/ Examples of infrequentinfrequent In summary, relationships with nieces and nephews for most of those with families at a distance are primarily symbolic, perfunctory and infrequent. One could not count on this, however, as these visits were infrequent and short. For example, the public home-help service, if received at all, typically provides only infrequent cleaning of just one room and the kitchen. Ability to access best practice statement easily even if type of care is infrequent. That is, the interventions by the supernatural are infrequent and, hence, inconsequential to the processes and regularities of the development of civilization. One difficulty is that the word is relatively late-emerging and infrequent, indicating a metacognitive level of understanding. If litigation over the initial terms of hire was infrequent, mariners often complained when masters or merchants changed a ship's destination midvoyage. This suggests that the zero subject relative may always have been an infrequent option, as remains so, at least in these peripheral dialect areas. Complications related to permanent cardiac pacing in the pediatric population are infrequent. But when the number of trials is large, even infrequent outcomes have a chance to materialize. In the current study the pointing and showing behaviors were too infrequent in all three groups to allow for meaningful analyses. However, none of these studies had enough data for individual infrequent verbs to assess their actual frequency and zero rate. The reason for this not too infrequent occurrence was traced to leaking nozzle seals or pressure holes or to damage on the flat-plate leading edge. Hypersensitive carotid sinus is an infrequent cause of syncope but provokes significant injuries in up to 25% of patients (43). Affricate productions were infrequent throughout the study for all infants. These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. |
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