喜樂美語
  1. 1r/ˈjuːʒuəli/通常／平常

    Most of the time; in the way that happens on most days or in most cases.

    「usually」是說某件事「大部分時候都這樣，但不是百分之百」。可以想成它落在 always（總是）和 sometimes（有時）之間——比 always 留了一點例外的空間。常放在一般動詞前面（I usually walk）或 be 動詞後面（She is usually late）。

    示範例句 · Example

    Mei usually walks to school, but today she took the bus.

    中文翻譯美通常走路上學，但今天她搭了公車。

    常見搭配

    • usually + verb

      通常會（做某事）

      to do something most of the time

      I usually read before bed.

    • as usual

      像往常一樣

      in the way that normally happens

      As usual, the bus was a few minutes late.

    意思相近

    normallygenerallymostlyas a rule

    意思相反

    rarelyseldom

core核心畫面

From the word’s history

From Middle English usualli; usual + -ly.

由 usual 加上 -ly 組成，中古英文寫作 usualli。

Wiktionary

You can picture 'usually' as the path most days take. If you watched the same situation over and over, this is what you would see happen on most of those times — not every single time, but the way it normally goes.

可以想成：把同一件事看很多很多次，usually 指的就是「大多數時候會走的那條路」。不是每一次都這樣，而是把所有日子排開來看，最常出現的那種情況。它留了一點空間給例外，所以它說的是「平常、一般來說」，而不是「絕對、每次」。

同家族的字

意思相近

normallygenerallymostlyas a rule

意思相反

rarelyseldom

原始詞典資料2 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。

usuallyadv/ˈjuːʒʊəli/

  • 1

    Most of the time; less than always, but more than occasionally.

    • Except for one or two days a year, he usually walks to work.
    • He and Gerald usually challenged the rollers in a sponson canoe when Gerald was there for the weekend ; or, when Lansing came down, the two took long swims seaward or cruised about in Gerald's dory, clad in their swimming-suits; and Selwyn's youth became renewed in a manner almost ridiculous,[…].
  • 2

    Under normal conditions.

摘錄自 英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary，已精簡格式；依 CC BY-SA 4.0 授權使用，改動後的內容同樣以此授權提供。