Seldom

例句/造句/用法:

• It seldom happens, however, that a great proprietor is a great improver. 亞當·斯密. 國富論.
• It can seldom happen that much can be spared from the circulating money of the country; because in that there can seldom be much redundancy. 亞當·斯密. 國富論.
• American youths to-day are given, if of a mechanical turn of mind, to amateur telegraphy or telephony, but seldom, if ever, have to make any part of the system constructed. 弗蘭克·路易斯·戴爾. 愛迪生的生平和發明.
• But her mother held her back, saying, with a look she seldom wore. 路易莎·梅·奧爾科特. 小婦人.
• We have great fleets in the Mediterranean, but they seldom touch at African ports. 馬克·吐溫. 傻子出國記.
• In other words, Edison's real work has seldom been seriously discussed. 弗蘭克·路易斯·戴爾. 愛迪生的生平和發明.
• You did not see it because I led you not in the beaten tracks, but through roundabout passages seldom used. 愛德格·賴斯·巴勒斯. 火星戰神.
• In short, but for such perseverance as I have seldom witnessed, I had never placed myself under his protection. 哈裡特·威爾遜. 哈裡特·威爾遜回忆录.
• In either case the distance through which the prongs move is very small and the period is very short, so that the eye can seldom detect the movement itself. 伯莎M.克拉克. 科學通論.
• In the present state of Europe, the share of the landlord seldom exceeds a third, sometimes not a fourth part of the whole produce of the land. 亞當·斯密. 國富論.
• Sometimes she writes Percival only, but very seldom--in nine cases out of ten she gives him his title. 威爾基·柯林斯. 白衣女人.
• You have come and poured your heart out; a thing seldom done. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 維萊特.
• Generally speaking, meats are the most expensive foods we can purchase, and hence should be bought seldom and in small quantities. 伯莎M.克拉克. 科學通論.
• It very seldom happens that anybody--of any pretensions--any pretensions--comes here without being presented to me. 查理斯·狄更斯. 小杜麗.
• We are wont to dispute concerning the nature of mathematical points, but seldom concerning the nature of their ideas. 大衛·休謨. 人性論.
• In this respect he is far below Aristotle, who is comparatively seldom imposed upon by false analogies. 柏拉圖. 理想國.
• Gold is seldom used for any purpose in a state of perfect purity on account of its softness, but is combined with some other metal to render it harder. 佚名. 神奇的知識之書.
• But, as princes seldom get their meat hot, my legs were not scalded, only my stockings and breeches in a sad condition. 喬納森·斯威夫特. 格列佛遊記.
• The poor things got no other lunch and were seldom home before two. 路易莎·梅·奧爾科特. 小婦人.
• They were high from the ground, and they burnt with the steady dulness of artificial light in air that is seldom renewed. 查理斯·狄更斯. 遠大前程.
• It is because of the banths that they seldom venture below ground except as their duties call them. 愛德格·賴斯·巴勒斯. 火星戰神.
• He lives at Pentonwil when he's at home,' observed the driver coolly, 'but we seldom takes him home, on account of his weakness. 查理斯·狄更斯. 匹克威克外傳.
• No individual, perhaps, ever possessed a juster understanding, or was so seldom obstructed in the use of it by indolence, enthusiasm, or authority. 本傑明·佛蘭克林. 佛蘭克林自傳.
• But there is nobody hereabouts to attach her; and she goes so seldom from home. 簡·奧斯丁. 愛瑪.
• But acknowledging his guest to be such a good fellow as has seldom graced his board, the holy man at length produces the best his cell affords. 沃爾特·司各特. 艾凡赫.
• But bounty and hospitality very seldom lead to extravagance; though vanity almost always does. 亞當·斯密. 國富論.
• Gold and silver, therefore, very seldom appear in the commerce between Great Britain and the tobacco colonies. 亞當·斯密. 國富論.
• Acetylene is seldom used in large cities, but it is very widely used in small communities and is particularly convenient in more or less remote summer residences. 伯莎M.克拉克. 科學通論.
• He was seldom at the palace; never, but when he was assured that his public duties would prevent his remaining alone with Perdita. 瑪麗·雪萊. 最後一個人.
• So was Mr. Pickwick, for he was seldom otherwise. 查理斯·狄更斯. 匹克威克外傳.

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