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often

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音标发音

  • 英式音标 ['ɒf(tə)n]
  • 美式音标 ['ɔf(tə)n; 'ɑf(tə)n]
  • 国际音标 ['ɔfən, 'ɔftən, 'ɔ:-]
  • 英式发音
  • 美式发音

基本解释

  • adv. 常常，时常；往往，大多

词源解说

  • 直接源自古英语的oft，意为经常。

同根派生

  • adv性质的同根词
    oft：常常；再三。
    oftentimes：时常地。

用法辨析

    adv. (副词)

  • often的基本意思是“常常,经常”,主要修饰动词,也可修饰其他副词或形容词,指某件事情在不同场合下屡次发生,具体的时间意味不强。有时often还表示“在许多场合下”。可用于一般时态,也可用于完成体。
  • often一般位于实义动词之前,而位于to be、情态动词或(第一个)助动词之后。有时为了加强语气, often也可以放在系动词之前,此时作谓语的系动词要重读。
  • often有时也可放在句末。如果句子相当短,可将often放在句末,为了加强语气或对比,有时可以移至句首,这时常常引起主谓倒装(非正式语体中也可不倒装)。
  • 用于疑问句或否定句中, often可以用作表语。
  • often在用于询问“隔多长时间一次”或“多少次”时,常用于how often短语。

英汉例句

    用作副词 (adv.)

    用作状语

  • I often go swimming in summer.
    夏天我经常去游泳。

    • 用作表语

  • We see him when he comes to town, but that isn't often.
    他进城时我们能见到他,但不经常。

词组短语

    用作副词 (adv.)

    ～+动词

  • often come 经常来
  • often go 经常去
  • often hear 经常听见
  • often meet 经常遇见
  • often rain 经常下雨

英英字典

    剑桥英英字典

  • many times

    • 柯林斯英英字典

  • If something often happens, it happens many times or much of the time.
  • You use how often to ask questions about frequency. You also use often in reported clauses and other statements to give information about the frequency of something.
  • If something happens every so often, it happens regularly, but with fairly long intervals between each occasion.
  • If you say that something happens as often as not, or more often than not, you mean that it happens fairly frequently, and that this can be considered as typical.