often

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:-]
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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。

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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。

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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。

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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

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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.

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