- 1rB2
/ˈseldəm/
not often; almost never.
很少；難得
核心畫面
Mark a calendar every time it happens and you get a nearly empty page — a few scattered dots, long gaps between them. The word sits far down the frequency scale, close to never but not quite there.
可以想成：每發生一次就在月曆上點一個點，結果整頁幾乎空白——只有零星幾點，中間隔得很開。這個字落在頻率量尺的低端，靠…更多收起
可以想成：每發生一次就在月曆上點一個點，結果整頁幾乎空白——只有零星幾點，中間隔得很開。這個字落在頻率量尺的低端，靠近 never 但還沒到；比 sometimes 少得多，跟 rarely 差不多。原始詞典資料2 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。
seldomadv/ˈsɛldəm/
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Infrequently, rarely.
- They seldom come here now.
- I corralled the judge, and we started off across the fields, in no very mild state of fear of that gentleman's wife, whose vigilance was seldom relaxed.
seldomadj/ˈsɛldəm/
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archaicRare; infrequent.
- a suppressed and seldom anger
- He was very curious in his garden, which was never out of order; in which he would at seldom times take a short walk or two, not enduring to see a weed in it.
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。