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美:[ɪnˈfrikwəntlɪ]
英:[ɪn'fri:kwəntlɪ]
美:[ɪnˈfrikwəntlɪ]
Adverb
1. not many times;
"in your 1850 church you not infrequently find a dramatic contrast between the sumptuous appointments of the building itself and the inhuman barrack-like living conditions in the church room"
Latin infrequent-, infrequens, from in- + frequent-, frequens frequent
The first known use of infrequent was in 1622
infringeverb
to fail to obey or act in agreement with : violate
infringe a treaty
encroach sense 1
infringe on a person's rights
infrequentadjective
seldom happening or occurring
not placed, made, or done at frequent intervals
made infrequent stops
1 Rates used to be pretty stable, changing infrequently.
2 Swallowtail butterflies have particularly large wings for their body size, and flap them relatively infrequently.
燕尾蝶有着相对于它们的身体而言十分巨大的翅膀,并且扇动的频率少见地慢。
3 Will a board who meets so infrequently and does so little be able to help Berkshire bridge to the future?
一个开会次数如此稀少、疏于行动的董事会能帮助伯克希尔迈向未来吗?
4 When Mr. Ives pounced back into his original spot, reclaiming it, he established the duet’s rhythm: long stretches of slow tension, infrequently punctuated by outbursts of high velocity.
5 Soon, they were creeping down an infrequently traveled dirt road lined with palmettos and mossy live oaks.
6 Only infrequently would he come to tea in the Cavendish, since it meant enduring Crick’s booming over the tea room.
7 Observations by other people, such as family members, can be subjective, and doctor and counselor sessions are too infrequent.
8 Teenage Qin has little use for these virtual strangers who appear in her life so infrequently.
9 It is infrequently visited by many tourists but is home to a farm resort and ever-evolving agritourism circuit where locavore thinking has taken hold and begun to redefine Singaporean cuisine and culture.
10 Medieval Twitter can be a noisy and fractious place, where scholars post articles, memes and, not infrequently, fierce blasts at each other.
11 Stephen Patula, an area supervisor from Waterford, Ohio, shared a video on TikTok about how infrequently hot tea is ordered at his family’s franchised restaurants on Thursday, Oct.
12 Baldwin was known to visit the Café Tournon and the Brasserie Lipp, albeit infrequently, often stopping in before heading off to eat and drink in one of the cheaper neighborhood brasseries or bars.
13 Smart, articulate and charming, she emerged infrequently from the shadows to talk to reporters.
14 However infrequently they play bar mitzvahs, rappers, like awkward thirteen-year-olds, are very much a part of our own reality.
15 So the goal of watering is to get water to the roots of a plant, which is much better achieved by watering deeply and infrequently rather than superficially and often.
16 But in the first half of 2014, newly registered murals popped up infrequently.
17 His mother was someone who for many years he saw somewhat infrequently.
18 Sykes has been recording for the past year or so and performed infrequently.
19 He was a military officer who had been posted in Europe, and not infrequently a soldier would come back from a furlough in Croatia confessing he had fallen in love with a stripper.
20 Combined with its inherent complexity and uneven difficulty level this would be bad enough, but it also suffers from camera problems, with your viewpoint flicking about, infrequently settling anywhere useful.