1. 1每兩週一次的;隔週的(雜誌常叫「雙週刊」)

    A fortnight is two weeks — fourteen nights, if you say it the old way. So fortnightly means once every two weeks. A fortnightly magazine comes out every other week; a fortnightly meeting happens every two weeks. You can use it before a noun (a fortnightly report) or after a verb (the paper comes out fortnightly). British English uses this word quite naturally. American English almost never does; Americans say every two weeks, or biweekly — though biweekly is messy, because some people use it for twice a week. In Taiwan you will meet fortnightly in British school books and in the names of magazines.

組成fortnight + -ly. Fortnight itself is fourteen + night: fourteen nights, which is two weeks.

同家族的字

  • fortnightthe two-week stretch; this word is just fortnight plus -ly

原始詞典資料3 筆記錄

以下是外部詞典記錄的用法,摘錄並精簡格式,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。

fortnightlyadj/ˈfɔːɹtˌnaɪt.li/

  • 1

    Occurring once in a fortnight; once every two weeks.

fortnightlyadv/ˈfɔːɹtˌnaɪt.li/

  • 1

    once in a fortnight; once every two weeks

    • That's where my column appears, in the Greenville Herald, fortnightly.

fortnightlynoun/ˈfɔːɹtˌnaɪt.li/

  • 1

    A publication issued fortnightly (once every two weeks).

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