often
adv. 常常; 经常; 时常; 再三
If something often happens, it happens many times or much of the time.
They often spent Christmas at Prescott Hill...
他们经常在普雷斯科特山过圣诞节。
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。
You use how often to ask questions about frequency. You also use often in reported clauses and other statements to give information about the frequency of something.
How often do you brush your teeth?...
你多久刷一次牙?
I don't know how often I heard the same awful jokes...
这种千篇一律的烂笑话我不知道听过多少回了。
If something happens every so often, it happens regularly, but with fairly long intervals between each occasion.
She's going to come back every so often...
她会偶尔回来的。
Every so often he would turn and look at her.
他会时不时回头看她一眼。
If you say that something happens as often as not, or more often than not, you mean that it happens fairly frequently, and that this can be considered as typical of the kind of situation you are talking about.
Yet, as often as not, they find themselves the target of persecution rather than praise...
然而,他们发现自己往往不是被赞扬而是遭刁难。
Although sometimes I feel like bothering, as often as not I don't...
虽然我有时会觉得这是在找麻烦,但是通常并不会这样。
1. many times at short intervals;
2. frequently or in great quantities;
always, often, usually, frequently, repeatedly, regularly
这些副词均表示频度
as often as not
经常;在通常情况下
more often than not
往往,多半
We often read in novels how a seemingly respectable person or family has some terrible secret which has been concealed from strangers for years.
表面上道貌岸然的人或有声望的家庭,却有着骇人听闻,多年不让人知道的秘密,这样的事情我们经常在小说里读到.
Success often depends on temperament.
成功常常取决于一个人的性格.
Gold prices are often seen as an indicator of inflation.
黃金价格常常被看作是通货膨胀的指标.
Some people are often reproached for unpunctuality when their only fault is cutting things fine.
有的人因不准时而受到指责,这时他们唯一的过失就是把时间抠得太紧了.
We meet every so often and compare notes.
我们时常碰头,交换意见.