as often as not
基本解释
- 時常;往往
英汉例句
- During foggy weather the trains are late as often as not.
有霧的時候,火車往往晚點。 - It seems like an increasingly alien concept, picking up a phone without knowing who is on the other end, so as often as not I let the answerphone pick up.
在完全不知道對方是誰的情況下拿起話筒,越來越像是外星人的做法。 - As often as not the buses are late on foggy days.
遇多霧天氣時,公共汽車經常晚點。 - She often said: "You must never so much as think if you like it or not, if it is bearable or not.
- This is actually very representative of when you do research in the laboratory, you will find often things do not work quite exactly as they worked 20 minutes ago when you just checked it in your office, for example.
在實騐室做研究時,這個實際上是非常具有代表性的,擧個例子,儅時衹是在辦公室核查它時,你經常會發現事物無法,像它們20分鍾之前那樣精確的工作。
麻省理工公開課 - 化學原理課程節選 - We can often better understand the dialogues by seeing Socrates as putting forward certain positions that he does not think are altogether adequate.
通過了解那些由囌格拉底提出,但他自己也覺得不充分的觀點,我們可以更好地理解這些對話作品
耶魯公開課 - 死亡課程節選 - In Third World rhetoric, "corruption" as often as not is a euphemism for political deviation.
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