- 1rB2
/əˈkeɪʒənəli/
Sometimes, but not often and not in a regular way.
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核心畫面
You can picture occasionally as a few scattered dots on a long line of time — it does happen, but the gaps between are wide and the dots fall wherever they fall, with no pattern you could predict.
可以想成一條長長的時間線上，零星散落的幾個小點：事情確實會發生，但點跟點之間隔得很開，而且落在哪裡沒有規律，你事先猜…更多收起
可以想成一條長長的時間線上，零星散落的幾個小點：事情確實會發生，但點跟點之間隔得很開，而且落在哪裡沒有規律，你事先猜不到下一次是什麼時候。這正是它跟 sometimes 的差別——sometimes 只說「有時候」，occasionally 還多帶了「次數不多、也不固定」的味道。原始詞典資料3 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。
occasionallyadv/əˈkeɪʒənəli/
- 1
On occasion: at relatively infrequent intervals, from time to time, sometimes.
- God ſetteth no houres for the morning or evening ſacrifice because they may occaſionally be changed.
- Some perhaps worship only on alternate Sundays; others still more occasionally.
- 2
obsoleteOn an occasion, accidentally, by chance.
- Mr Tourville occasionally told his age; just turned of thirty-one.
- [N]othing gave him so much joy in conversation, as an opportunity of giving the company to understand, how well he was with persons of distinguished rank and character: he would often (for example) observe, as it were occasionally, that the duke of G— was one of the best natured men in the world […].
- 3
obsoleteOn the occasion of something else happening; incidentally, by the way.
- Were nothing els diſcourſively inſerted (as ſome little elſe occaſionally preſented it ſelfe), what paper more currently fit for the bareſt mechanicall uſes, [...]
- I think it is plain, that Origen, whatever Character he may have occaſionally given of this Book, did not judge it any part of the Canon...
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。