often的详尽意思

1. 往往
2. 常常
3. 时常
4. 经常
5. 通常
6. 屡次
7. 再三
8. 不时
9. 一般说来
10. 大多
11. 一贯
12. 有时
13. 偶尔
14. 在大多数情况下

1. 经常的

1. many times at short intervals;

   "we often met over a cup of coffee"
   

2. frequently or in great quantities;

   "I don't drink much"
   "I don't travel much"
   

3. in many cases or instances

1.常常；经常
If somethingoften happens, it happens many times or much of the time.

e.g. Theyoften spent Christmas at Prescott Hill...
他们经常在普雷斯科特山过圣诞节。
e.g. Early American weathervanes were mostoften cut from flat wooden boards...
美国早期的风向标大多截自平直的木板。

2.（用于询问或说明某事发生的频率）（多）常
You usehow often to ask questions about frequency. You also useoften in reported clauses and other statements to give information about the frequency of something.

e.g. Howoften do you brush your teeth?...
你多久刷一次牙？
e.g. I don't know howoften I heard the same awful jokes...
这种千篇一律的烂笑话我不知道听过多少回了。

3.（有规律地）有时，偶尔
If something happensevery so often, it happens regularly, but with fairly long intervals between each occasion.

e.g. She's going to come back every sooften...
她会偶尔回来的。
e.g. Every sooften he would turn and look at her.
他会时不时回头看她一眼。

4.往往；多半；通常
If you say that something happensas often as not, ormore often than not, you mean that it happens fairly frequently, and that this can be considered as typical of the kind of situation you are talking about.

e.g. Yet, asoften as not, they find themselves the target of persecution rather than praise...
然而，他们发现自己往往不是被赞扬而是遭难。
e.g. Although sometimes I feel like bothering, asoften as not I don't...
虽然我有时会觉得这是在找麻烦，但是通常并不会这样。

• 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
• often write to sb经常给某人写信

• often damp通常很潮湿
• often difficult通常很难
• often tall通常很高

• Oftenest..he wished he were a vigorous young man of genius.

  出自：H. James

• I am often assumed to be Welsh.

  出自：Day Lewis

• Through this voyage I had been..changing the sails more often.

  出自：F. Chichester

• Francis..often either lay down or took a short walk.

  出自：E. Bowen

• I heard about it often enough.

  出自：E. Figes

昨天上英语课时,我常常犯拼写错误。

误 I often made spelling mistakes in English class yesterday.

正 I made spelling mistakes in English class several times yesterday.

析 often通常不与其他表示时间的词(如yesterday)出现在同一句子中,因为often表示“不同场合下常常…”,而不表示“同一场合下常常…”。

他经常因公出差到国外去。

误 He travels often abroad for business.

正 He often travels abroad for business.

析 often一般放在行为动词之前,系动词、助动词或情态动词之后,但在强调系动词、助动词或情态动词时例外。

你多久给你的父母写信?

误 How long do you write to your parents?

正 How often do you write to your parents?

析 how long指“行为持续的时间”,而how often则表示“多久发生一次”,即某种行为发生的频率。