Occasional
[ə'keɪʒ(ə)n(ə)l] or [ə'keʒənl]
解释:
(a.) Of or pertaining to an occasion or to occasions; occuring at times, but not constant, regular, or systematic; made or happening as opportunity requires or admits; casual; incidental; as, occasional remarks, or efforts.
(a.) Produced by accident; as, the occasional origin of a thing.
编辑:威拉
同义词及近义词:
a. Incidental, accidental, casual, irregular.
詹妮校对
娱乐性解释:
adj. Afflicting us with greater or less frequency. That however is not the sense in which the word is used in the phrase 'occasional verses which are verses written for an occasion such as an anniversary, a celebration or other event. True, they afflict us a little worse than other sorts of verse, but their name has no reference to irregular recurrence.
手打:索菲
例句:
- I was informed he wrote several small occasional works, but only one of them was printed, which I remember to have seen several years since. 本杰明·富兰克林. 富兰克林自传.
- As Sarkoja talked with Zad he cast occasional glances in my direction, while she seemed to be urging him very strongly to some action. 埃德加·赖斯·巴勒斯. 火星公主.
- This is sad, but his occasional references to himself grieve me still more. 威尔基·柯林斯. 白衣女人.
- The canal extends nearly due south to Suez on the Red Sea, a distance of about 100 miles, through barren wastes of sand and an occasional lake. Edward W. Byrn. 十九世纪发明进展.
- The country about was generally heavily timbered, but with occasional clearings. 尤利西斯·格兰特. U.S.格兰特的个人回忆录.
- But this need is occasional and temporary. 约翰·杜威. 民主与教育.
- Here and there they were broken with streaks and patches of dusky red, green, and occasional areas of white quartz. 埃德加·赖斯·巴勒斯. 火星战神.
- If I do come back, said he, forcing a languid smile, mind let me find you married, and rich enough to lend me an occasional hundred pounds or two. 哈里特·威尔逊. 哈里特·威尔逊回忆录.
- None save my partner with his family and an occasional friend of Arthur's. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯历险记.
- Its price, therefore, besides compensating all occasional losses, must afford something like the profit of insurance. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.
- Besides the fortifications on Mission Ridge, there was a line at the base of the hill, with occasional spurs of rifle-pits half-way up the front. 尤利西斯·格兰特. U.S.格兰特的个人回忆录.
- Nor was the occasional society of Mr. Pott himself wanting to complete their felicity. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 匹克威克外传.
- In an unguarded moment, I chanced to say that, of the two errors; I considered falsehood worse than an occasional lapse in church-attendance. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 维莱特.
- We mustn’t forget, he answered, that the steady income of a regular trade is safer to rely on than occasional success in other lines. 鲁伯特·萨金特·荷兰. 历史性发明.
- The firing from far away and above had almost died out and now there was only an occasional shot. 欧内斯特·海明威. 丧钟为谁而鸣.
- Only the Earl himself kept up a sly occasional acquaintance with her, when out of the jurisdiction of his ladies. 威廉·梅克比斯·萨克雷. 名利场.
- Inspector Gregory was full of his case, and poured out a stream of remarks, while Holmes threw in an occasional question or interjection. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯回忆录.
- Every man endeavours to supply, by his own industry, his own occasional wants, as they occur. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.
- She lost her colour, and the old and intent expression was a constant, not an occasional, thing; otherwise, she remained very pretty and comely. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 双城记.
- Such a merchant would have no occasion to keep any part of his stock by him unemployed, and in ready money, for answering occasional demands. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.
- The Roman citizen got his political facts from rumour and the occasional orator. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
- Other children in grief or pain cry aloud, without shame or restraint; but this being wept: the tiniest occasional sniff testified to her emotion. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 维莱特.
- A struggle was evidently in his face; a struggle with that occasional look which had a tendency in it to dark doubt and dread. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 双城记.
- We are as yet profoundly ignorant of the many occasional means of transport. 查尔斯·达尔文. 物种起源.
- Clandestine and occasional vice is beyond all measurement. 沃尔特·李普曼. 政治序论.
- We rowed along the shore, the barman holding the line in his hand and giving it occasional jerks forward. 欧内斯特·海明威. 永别了,武器.
- She went to the side-board, opened a drawer, and took out a duster, which she kept there for any occasional purpose. 伊丽莎白·盖斯凯尔. 南方与北方.
- The only incident he had strongly winced under had been an occasional encounter with Caleb Garth, who, however, had raised his hat with mild gravity. 乔治·艾略特. 米德尔马契.
- The occasional lamps gleamed on the expanse of muddy road and shining pavement. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯归来记.
- At last he saw it, the thing the little monkeys so feared--the man-brute of which the Claytons had caught occasional fleeting glimpses. 埃德加·赖斯·巴勒斯. 人猿泰山.
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