| 正面 | 275.often 英 ['ɒf(tə)n]美 ['ɔf(tə)n]     |
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| 背面 |      释义： 1、gam- + -e.2、含义2: perhaps a variant of gammy (tramps' slang) "bad," or from Old North French gambe "leg". => lame.adv. 常常，时常 例句： 1. Early American weathervanes were most often cut from flat wooden boards.美国早期的风向标大多截自平直的木板。 often 经常来自古英语oft,经常，频繁，来自Proto-Germanic*ufta,频繁地。 oftenoften: [14] Oft was the Old English word for ‘often’. It came from a prehistoric Germanic adverb of unknown origin, which also produced German oft, Swedish ofta, and Danish ofte. In early Middle English it was extended to ofte. This developed a form often before vowels and h, which by the 16th century had begun to oust oft(e).often (adv.)c. 1300, extended form of oft, originally before vowels and h-, probably by influence of Middle English selden "seldom." In common use from 16c., replacing oft." |