- 1rB2
/ˈkɑːnstəntli/ · /ˈkɒnstəntli/
All the time, or very often — used especially about something that keeps happening again and again.
不斷地／老是
核心畫面
Picture a tap that never quite closes — drip, drip, drip. Nothing dramatic happens at any single moment, but it never stops either. That is the feel of constantly: not one big event, but the same thing arriving again and again until it becomes the background of the situation.
可以想成：一個關不緊的水龍頭，一直滴、一直滴。任何單獨一刻都不算什麼大事，可是它從來沒有停過。constantly …更多收起
可以想成：一個關不緊的水龍頭，一直滴、一直滴。任何單獨一刻都不算什麼大事，可是它從來沒有停過。constantly 給人的感覺就是這樣——不是一次很強烈的事件，而是同一件事一再出現，久到變成整個情況的背景音。也因為這樣，它常常帶著一點「受不了」的語氣。原始詞典資料4 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，原文照列，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
constantlyadv/ˈkɒnstəntli/
- 1
archaicWith steadfastness; with resolve; in loyalty, faithfully.
- Agrippa and the rest of his weeping friends earnestly besought him […] not to offer violence unto himself, ‘with a settled resolution he desired again they would approve of his good intent, and not seek to dehort him from it’; and so constantly died.
- 2
In a constant manner; occurring continuously; persistently.
- For most people, this sacrifice is made easily and instinctively. Not so for otroverts, who are neither willing nor able to passively adopt the social scripts that others do. To the otrovert, who is constantly engaged with the choices and consequences of their individual life, social norms follow a circular logic: […]
- 3
Recurring regularly.
- I find that I am constantly reminding you to feed your pets.
- Japanese retail stores have strove to, and have succeeded in, fulfilling these severe demands, and in doing so, have constantly had to innovate both technologically and institutionally in order to keep up with the competition.
- 4
In an unchangeable or invariable manner; in every case.
資料來源：英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary（CC BY-SA 4.0）。 原文照列，未經改寫。