occasionally是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为ad. 偶然； 非经常地，这个词在很多英文原版小说中怎么应用呢，今天小编就带您了解一下。
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《双城记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- For he was furnished with that completeness that if the 13coach-lamps had been blown and stormed out, which did occasionally happen, he had only to shut himself up inside, keep the flint and steel sparks well off the straw, and get a light with tolerable safety and ease (if he were lucky) in five minutes.
-- He had a wild, lost manner of occasionally clasping his head in his hands, that had not been seen in him before; yet, he had some pleasure in the mere sound of his daughter's voice, and invariably turned to it when she spoke.
-- Both resorted to the drinking-table without stint, but each in a different way; the lion for the most part reclining with his hands in his waist-band, looking at the fire, or occasionally flirting with some 122 A tale of two citieslighter document; the jackal, with knitted brows and intent face, so deep in his task, that his eyes did not even follow the hand he stretched out for his glass which often groped about, for a minute or more, before it found the glass for his lips.
-- They persisted in chang-ing colour sometimes, and they would be occasionally dilated and contracted by something like a faint pulsation; then, they gave a look of treachery, and cruelty, to the whole countenance.
-- The spy, who was there to pick up any crumbs he could 257find or make, did not allow his baffled state to express- itself in his sinister face; but, stood with an air of gossiping gallantry, leaning his elbow on Madame Defarge's little counter, and occasionally sipping his cognac.
在汉斯·克里斯蒂安·安徒生的《安徒生童话》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The extensive building is separated from the street by a pretty high railing, the thick iron bars of which are so far apart, that in all seriousness, it is said, some very thin fel-low had of a night occasionally squeezed himself through to go and pay his little visits in the town.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《安娜·卡列尼娜》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He was listening with a smile to the hollow- chested youth, and occasionally pulling him up.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《八十天环游地球》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The songs gradually died away; occasionally cries were heard in the distance, until at last all was silence again.
在辛克莱·刘易斯的《阿罗史密斯》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He spoke more seriously, occasionally forgetting what he was talking about: "Reading old Gray?
-- It is the property of the people of the state, and what they want--or what they are told they want--is a mill to turn out men and women who will lead moral lives, play bridge, drive good cars, be enterprising in business, and occasionally mention books, though they are not expected to have time to read them.
-- Occasionally, on Sundays or rainy days, he tried to read it, and longed for the laboratory; occasionally he thought of Madeline Fox, and became certain that he was devastatingly lonely for her.
-- Clif was occasionally irritating; he hated open windows; he talked of dirty socks; he sang "Some die of Diabetes" when Martin was studying; and he was altogether unable to say anything directly.
-- He occasionally protested that the Reverend Ira Hinkley was a village policeman and Irving Watters a plumber, that Angus Duer would walk to success over his grandmother's head, and that for an idiot like Fatty Pfaff to practice on helpless human beings was criminal, but mostly he ignored them and ceased to be a pest.
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《罪与罚》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He was drunk, but spoke fluently and boldly, only occasionally losing the thread of his sentences and drawling his words.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《大卫科波菲尔》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- There was an interval of silence, only broken by Miss Betsey's occasionally ejaculating 'Ha!'
-- Mr. Peggotty went occasionally to a public-house called TheWilling Mind.
-- 66For good, too; though, in consequence of my previous emotions, Iwas still occasionally seized with a stormy sob.
-- Myaunt, looking very like an immoveable Chancellor of theExchequer, would occasionally throw in an interruption or two, as'Hear!'
-- But Dora'saunts soon agreed to regard my aunt as an eccentric and somewhatmasculine lady, with a strong understanding; and although myaunt occasionally ruffled the feathers of Dora's aunts, byexpressing heretical opinions on various points of ceremony, sheloved me too well not to sacrifice some of her little peculiarities tothe general harmony.
在简·奥斯汀的《爱玛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The evening was quiet and conversable, as Mr. Wood-house declined cards entirely for the sake of comfortable talk with his dear Isabella, and the little party made two natural divisions; on one side he and his daughter; on the other the two Mr. Knightleys; their subjects totally distinct, or very rarely mixing and Emma only occasionally join-ing in one or the other.
-- Sometimes Mr. Elton predominated, sometimes the Martins; and each was occasionally useful as a check to the other.
-- Their first pause was at the Crown Inn, an inconsiderable house, though the principal one of the sort, where a couple of pair of post-horses were kept, more for the convenience of the neighbourhood than from any run on the road; and his companions had not expected to be detained by any interest excited there; but in passing it they gave the history of the large room visibly added; it had been built many years ago for a ball-room, and while the neighbourhood had been in a particularly populous, dancing state, had been occasionally used as such; but such brilliant days had long passed away, and now the highest purpose for which it was ever want-ed was to accommodate a whist club established among the gentlemen and half-gentlemen of the place.
-- This is like giv-ing ourselves a slap, to be sure!and it was but yesterday I was telling Mr. Cole, I really was ashamed to look at our new grand pianoforte in the drawing-room, while I do not know one note from another, and our little girls, who are but just beginning, perhaps may never make any thing of it; and there is poor Jane Fairfax, who is mistress of mu-sic, has not any thing of the nature of an instrument, not even the pitifullest old spinet in the world, to amuse herself with. I was saying this to Mr. Cole but yesterday, and he quite agreed with me; only he is so particularly fond of mu-sic that he could not help indulging himself in the purchase, hoping that some of our good neighbours might be so oblig-ing occasionally to put it to a better use than we can; and that really is the reason why the instrument was bought or else I am sure we ought to be ashamed of it. We are in great hopes that Miss Woodhouse may be prevailed with to try it this evening.'
-- The quietness of the game made it particularly eligible for Mr. Woodhouse, who had often been distressed by the more animated sort, which Mr. Weston had occasionally introduced, and who now sat happily occupied in lamenting, with tender mel-ancholy, over the departure of the 'poor little boys,' or in fondly pointing out, as he took up any stray letter near him, how beautifully Emma had written it.
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