英汉词典

seldom 基本解释

• adv. 很少，不常

seldom 中文词源

来自古英语 seldum,改写自 seldan,少有，罕有，来自 Proto-Germanic*selda,罕有，反常，奇怪。

seldom 英文词源

seldom

seldom: [OE] Seldom goes back to a prehistoric Germanic *selda-, of which the underlying notion appears to have been ‘strange and rare’. Its modern Germanic relatives include German selten, Dutch zelten, Swedish sällan, and Danish sjelden.

seldom (adv.)

late Old English seldum, alteration of seldan "seldom, rarely," from Proto-Germanic *selda- "strange, rare" (cognates: Old Norse sjaldan, Old Frisian selden, Dutch zelden, Old High German seltan, German selten), perhaps ultimately from the base of self (q.v.).

Form shifted on analogy of adverbial dative plurals in -um (such as whilom "at one time," from while). The same development also created litlum from little, miclum from mickle. German seltsam "strange, odd," Dutch zeldzaam are related, but with the second element conformed to their versions of -some.

Seldom-times is from mid-15c. (Old English had seldhwanne "seldwhen"). Seldom-seen is from mid-15c. (Old English had seldsiene, "seld-seen").

Some compounds using the old form survived through Middle English, such as selcouth"rarely or little-known, unusual, strange, wonderful," from Old English selcuð, seld-cuð, from seldan + cuð (see couth). Old English seldan had comparative seldor, superlative seldost; in early Middle English, as seldan changed form and lost its connection with these, selde was formed as a positive. Shakespeare uses seld-shown.

seldom 英文释义

1. not often;

"we rarely met"

seldom 双语例句

1. Even Ford, who seldom smiled, laughed out loud a few times.

即使是很少笑的福特，有几次也笑出声来。

来自柯林斯例句

2. They seldom speak.

他们很少发言。

来自柯林斯例句

3. I've seldom felt so happy.

我很少感觉如此幸福。

来自柯林斯例句

4. We were seldom at home.

我们常不在家。

来自柯林斯例句

5. He had seldom seen a child with so much talent.

有如此天赋的孩子他以往没见过几个。

来自《权威词典》

seldom 实用场景例句

He had seldom seen a child with so much talent.

有如此天赋的孩子他以往没见过几个。

牛津词典

She seldom, if ever, goes to the theatre.

她难得上剧院看场戏——即便不能说从来不去。

牛津词典

They seldom watch television these days.

这些日子他们很少看电视。

牛津词典

(literary)Seldom had he seen such beauty.

他以前很少见过这样的美景。

牛津词典

They seldom speak...

他们很少发言。

柯林斯高阶英语词典

I've seldom felt so happy...

我很少感觉如此幸福。

柯林斯高阶英语词典

What do you like to do in your spare time?

空闲时你喜欢干什么?

辞典例句

A pheasant is a delicacy we seldom can enjoy.

野鸡是我们很少能品尝到的美味.

《现代汉英综合大词典》

Lazy people seldom succeed.

懒惰的人很少会成功.

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He seldom goes to the cinema.

他不大看电影.

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They seldom talk on politics in those days.

那时人们很少谈论政治.

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On Sundays, he seldom stays in the house.

星期天他很少待在房子里.

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This word is seldom used on ordinary occasions.

这个词儿平常很少用.

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He seldom or never drinks.

他简直可以说从不喝酒.

《简明英汉词典》

I seldom see such a guy.

这种人真是少有.

《现代汉英综合大词典》

She seldom or never writes to us.

她极少给我们来信.

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Women like her seldom stay on an even keel. Even the smallest things upset them.

像她那样的女人很少有情绪稳定的时候, 一点小事也会使她们心烦意乱.

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It is seldom that it rains in such a time in winter.

在冬天这个时候很少下雨.

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He is seldom out in his calculations.

他的计算难得出错.

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He is seldom ill.

他很少生病.

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I am seldom at leisure.

我很少有空.

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She seldom if ever goes to the pictures.

她很少去电影院.

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She seldom lodged the tourists.

她很少留宿游人.

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She seldom showed her true feelings.

她很少流露真情.

《现代汉英综合大词典》

She seldom showed her feelings.

她很少表露自己的情绪.

《现代汉英综合大词典》

Visits to really remote villages are seldom enjoyable —— as my wife and I discovered during a tour through the Balkans.

访问真正偏僻的村庄,很少是令人愉快的——这一点我和妻子在巴尔干地区游览时,有所发现.

《用法词典》

With mother earning and his elder children drawing substantial wages father is seldom the dominant figure that he still was at the beginning of the century.

由于母亲挣钱和大孩子也拿相当的工资,父亲很少再象本世纪初那样是一家之主了.

《用法词典》

It is seldom that a man lives to be a hundred years old.

人生百岁古来稀.

《现代英汉综合大词典》

The compensations for the injuries seldom yield complete satisfaction.

伤害赔偿很少使受害人称心如意.

《现代汉英综合大词典》