seldom

英 ['seld?m] 美['s?ld?m]
  • adv. 很少,不常

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中文詞源


seldom 很少,難得

來自古英語 seldum,改寫自 seldan,少有,罕有,來自 Proto-Germanic*selda,罕有,反常,奇怪。

英文詞源


seldom
seldom: [OE] Seldom goes back to a prehistoric Germanic *selda-, of which the underlying notion appears to have been ‘strange and rare’. Its modern Germanic relatives include German selten, Dutch zelten, Swedish s?llan, and Danish sjelden.
seldom (adv.)
late Old English seldum, alteration of seldan "seldom, rarely," from Proto-Germanic *selda- "strange, rare" (cognates: Old Norse sjaldan, Old Frisian selden, Dutch zelden, Old High German seltan, German selten), perhaps ultimately from the base of self (q.v.).

Form shifted on analogy of adverbial dative plurals in -um (such as whilom "at one time," from while). The same development also created litlum from little, miclum from mickle. German seltsam "strange, odd," Dutch zeldzaam are related, but with the second element conformed to their versions of -some.

Seldom-times is from mid-15c. (Old English had seldhwanne "seldwhen"). Seldom-seen is from mid-15c. (Old English had seldsiene, "seld-seen").

Some compounds using the old form survived through Middle English, such as selcouth"rarely or little-known, unusual, strange, wonderful," from Old English selcue, seld-cue, from seldan + cue (see couth). Old English seldan had comparative seldor, superlative seldost; in early Middle English, as seldan changed form and lost its connection with these, selde was formed as a positive. Shakespeare uses seld-shown.

雙語例句


1. Even Ford, who seldom smiled, laughed out loud a few times.
即使是很少笑的福特,有幾次也笑出聲來。

來自柯林斯例句

2. They seldom speak.
他們很少發(fā)言。

來自柯林斯例句

3. I've seldom felt so happy.
我很少感覺如此幸福。

來自柯林斯例句

4. We were seldom at home.
我們常不在家。

來自柯林斯例句

5. He had seldom seen a child with so much talent.
有如此天賦的孩子他以往沒見過幾個。

來自《權(quán)威詞典》

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