| 词汇 | occasional |
| 释义 | occasional adjective uk /əˈkeɪ.ʒən.əl//əˈkeɪʒ.nəl/ us /əˈkeɪ.ʒən.əl//əˈkeɪʒ.nəl/ C1 not happening or done often or regularly: 偶尔的;不经常的 I play the occasional game of tennis.我偶尔打打网球。 He has the occasional cigar after dinner.他饭后偶尔抽支雪茄。 I'm not averse to the occasional glass of champagne myself. Despite occasional patches of purple prose, the book is mostly clear and incisive.这本书尽管偶尔有几段词藻华丽的文句，但总体来讲文风简洁明了。 I'm trying to train my boyfriend to do the occasional bit of housework. Despite the occasional longueurs, this is an impressive first novel.尽管有些段落很沉闷，但它仍不失为一部给人留下深刻印象的小说处女作。 He strolled through the fields, potting at the occasional rabbit.他在田间散步，随手射猎了那只偶然撞见的野兔。 Rarely & infrequently (every) now and then/againidiom blue moon day episodic ever and anon few fit isolated it's not every day (that)...idiom like ships that pass in the nightidiom occasion occasionally odd one and doneidiom one-off one-shot one-time rarely stop-go ultra-rare occasional | American Dictionaryoccasional adjective[ not gradable ] us/əˈkeɪ·ʒə·nəl/ not happening often or regularly: occasional snowstorms His job requires occasional trips to the West Coast. Examples of occasionaloccasional No feedback, apart from occasional encouragement, was provided on the subsequent letters. An occasional ellipsis in the design of the present research is worth mentioning. Other extracts are reproduced as they originally appeared with occasional modifications to achieve standardisation. Speculative farmers hope for the occasional extraordinary profits but are deemed mere growers of necessary food. There have been many such, mostly quantitative with occasional excursions into qualitative or pitch-based scansion. The extremes range from occasional partial seizures of simple symptomatology without loss of consciousness to full-blown tonie-clonic seizures. Experiences of these blips would be anomalous, but we humans are quite good at disregarding the occasional anomaly. Fiscal conservatism by the 1960s involved support of a federal government that used moderate tax reductions, even though this resulted in occasional deficits. Our model generates time series as the sum of a latent random walk with drift and occasional large transitory movements driven by a regime-switching process. The book is not without occasional, sensible moments. The woman was referred to a psychiatric clinic, but although she had occasional contact with a psychiatrist, her problems grew worse. There are occasional points where vocal semiquavers contrast with instrumental triplets and sextuplets. Most of his visits were for social reasons : company, a chat, and occasional help with cooking. The great amount of work invested in the study goes virtually unheralded, with just an occasional remark giving the game away. In terms of linguistic levels, it concentrates on phonology and morphology, with occasional excursions into syntax and semantics. 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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