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Infrequent Happen 英 ɪn'friːkwənt] 美 ɪn'friːkwənt Adj.不频发的;不常见的 Year Country

英语单词 infrequent
英美音标 英 [ɪn'friːkwənt] 美 [ɪn'friːkwənt]
中文释义 adj.不频发的;不常见的
英语例句 (1) This year our country produced the infrequent pluvial calamity on the history.
(2) Primary abscess of the omentum is an infrequent disease entity.
中文例句 (1) 今年我国发生了历史上罕见的洪水灾害。
(2) 原发性大网膜脓疡是一种罕见的疾病。
vocabulary简明 Something that's infrequent doesn't happen very often. Your family might take infrequent trips to Disney World, traveling there every two or three years.
vocabulary扩展 Things that are infrequent are rare or uncommon. You'd probably be glad to have infrequent run-ins with mean dogs or ugly insects, but disappointed to get infrequent phone calls from your best friend. The adjective infrequent comes from the prefix in, which here means "not," and frequent, or "often," which is rooted in the Latin word frequentem, "crowded or repeated."
柯林斯解释
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[ADJ-GRADED 能被表示程度的副词或介词词组修饰的形容词]不频发的;很少发生的;罕见的 If something is infrequent, it does not happen often.
  • ...John's infrequent visits to London.

    约翰仅有的几次伦敦之行

infrequently
  • The bridge is used infrequently.

    那座桥少有人过。

  • ...schools which, not infrequently, were made up of 80 per cent or more of ethnic minorities.

    学生中经常有 80% 甚至更多是少数族裔的学校

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