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:-]
- 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。
用法辨析
- 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。
adv. (副词)
英汉例句
- I often go swimming in summer.
夏天我经常去游泳。 - 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。
用作副词 (adv.)
用作状语
用作表语
英英字典
- many times
- 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.