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单词 sporadically
释义
sporadically
adverb
uk
/spəˈræd.ɪ.kəl.i/us
/spəˈræd.ɪ.kəl.i/
sometimes, but notregularlyorcontinuously:
偶尔发生地；阵发性地；断断续续地
Fightingcontinuedthroughouttheafternoonand sporadically intoFridaynight.战斗持续了整个下午，并零星地持续到星期五晚上。
Though shelikestowork, she has only done so sporadically.虽然她喜欢工作，但也只是偶尔做做而已。
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  • Thesecuritydoorbuzzedsporadically asresidentscame and went.
  • Theymetat anightclubandbegandatingsporadically .
  • Theykeptintouchsporadically until 2005.
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases
Frequency & regularity - general words
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  • -ly
  • clockwork
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  • erratically
  • fitful
  • frequency
  • irregular
  • irregularity
  • irregularly
  • like clockworkidiom
  • many
  • on and offidiom
  • on-again, off-again
  • on-off
  • periodic
  • periodically
  • religiously
  • would
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(Definition ofsporadicallyfrom theCambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesofsporadically

sporadically
The new observations suggested that liquid water might be present, albeitsporadically, on the surface and that water still shapes the surface of the planet.
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Furthermore, petitions, correspondence, surveys and communal accounts also survivesporadicallyfor the villages that fell within the wider administrative district.
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Information on artists and materials is givensporadically.
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However, fauna and flora have their own limitations, particularly when they aresporadicallydistributed.
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By the end of the century, however, the construction becomes increasingly less common and is found onlysporadicallyin a handful of texts.
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One ad that appearedsporadicallyfor decades was an image of the father at the dinner table with his wife and children gathered to eat.
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Small amounts of calcite and dolomite can appearsporadicallyin silica xenoliths, but are more common in calc-silicate xenoliths.
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This had been spoken and written aboutsporadicallyover previous decades but sprang into prominence in the 1950s.
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Support from different sources was highly valued but was reported to be provided inconsistently andsporadically.
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Research on this concept has continuedsporadicallysince that time.
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It is not just an ideal, but a very real possibility, and one which issporadicallyfulfilled.
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This suggests that a regime of increasing accommodation was required to form well-developed reefs, though reefs also occursporadicallyin highstand systems tract settings.
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In contrast, the father appears as a knight in shining armor, returning homesporadicallyfrom exciting events outside.
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In the first years they had corresponded quite intensely, but later moresporadically.
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The next two results show that totally free matroids cannot occursporadicallyin a minor-closed class.
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