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。
在戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯的《查太莱夫人的情人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Only occasionally the soul rises gasp-ing through the fathomless fathoms under which we live, far up to the surface of the ether, where there is true air.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- These did occasionally wink a little, as the hot air barely moved their faint leaves.
-- The collegian under treatment, after shaking hands, would occasionally stop to wrap up something in a bit of paper, and would come back again calling 'Hi!'
-- It was evident from the general tone of the whole party, that they had come to regard insolvency as the normal state of mankind, and the payment of debts as a disease that occasionally broke out.
-- The flat expanse of country about Chalons lay a long heavy streak, occasionally made a little ragged by a row of poplar trees against the wrathful sunset.
-- Flora Casby had been the beloved of his boyhood; and Flora was the daughter and only child of wooden-headed old Christopher (so he was still occasionally spoken of by some irreverent spirits who had had dealings with him, and in whom familiarity had bred its proverbial result perhaps), who was reputed to be rich in weekly tenants, and to get a good quantity of blood out of the stones of several unpromising courts and alleys.
在路易莎·梅·奥尔科特的《小妇人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- She was obliged to walk carefully, for she had on highheeled shoes, and, as Laurie told Jo afterward, it was a comical sight to see her mince along in her gay suit, with Polly sidilng and bridling just be-hind her, imitating her as well as he could, and occasionally stopping to laugh or exclaim, 'Ain't we fine?
-- But there came a time when Laurie ceased to worship at many shrines, hinted darkly at one all-absorbing passion, and indulged occasionally in Byronic fits of gloom.
-- Mamma was an abject slave to their caprices, but Papa was not so easily subjugated, and occasionally afflicted his tender spouse by an attempt at paternal discipline with his obstreperous son.
-- He also possessed a philosophic bent, to the great delight of his grandfather, who used to hold Socratic conversations with him, in which the precocious pupil occasionally posed his teacher, to the undisguised satisfaction of the women-folk.
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Now, it was plainly a labor of love for Captain Sleet to describe, as he does, all the little detailed conveniences of his crow's-nest; but though he so enlarges upon many of these, and though he treats us to a very scientific account of his experiments in this crow's-nest, with a small compass he kept there for the purpose of counteracting the errors resulting from what is called the "local attraction" of all binnacle magnets; an error ascribable to the horizontal vicinity of the iron in the ship's planks, and in the Glacier's case, perhaps, to there having been so many broken-down blacksmiths among her crew; I say, that though the Captain is very discreet and scientific here, yet, for all his learned "binnacle deviations," "azimuth compass observations," and "approximate errors," he knows very well, Captain Sleet, that he was not so much immersed in those profound magnetic meditations, as to fail being attracted occasionally towards that well replenished little case-bottle, so nicely tucked in on one side of his crow's nest, within easy reach of his hand.
-- Aside from those more obvious considerations touching Moby Dick, which could not but occasionally awaken in any man's soul some alarm, there was another thought, or rather vague, nameless horror concerning him, which at times by its intensity completely overpowered all the rest; and yet so mystical and well nigh ineffable was it, that I almost despair of putting it in a comprehensible form.
-- Of those fine cavaliers, the young Dons, Pedro and Sebastian, were on the closer terms with me; and hence the interluding questions they occasionally put, and which are duly answered at the time.
-- This weapon is always kept as sharp as possible; and when being used is occasionally honed, just like a razor.
-- I have hinted that I would often jerk poor Queequeg from between the whale and the ship where he would occasionally fall, from the incessant rolling and swaying of both.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《雾都孤儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The houses on either side were high and large, but very old, and tenanted by people of the poorest class: as their neglected appearance would have sufficiently denoted, without the concurrent testimony afforded by the squalid looks of the few men and women who, with folded arms and bodies half doubled, occasionally skulked along.
-- Mr. Crackit (for he it was) had no very great quantity of hair, either upon his head or face; but what he had, was of a reddish dye, and tortured into long corkscrew curls, through which he occasionally thrust some very dirty fingers, ornamented with large common rings.
-- A dim light shone at intervals from some bed-room window; and the hoarse barking of dogs occasionally broke the silence of the night.
-- Messrs. Blathers and Duff looked very knowing meanwhile, and occasionally exchanged a nod.
-- A paper fly-cage dangled from the ceiling, to which he occasionally raised his eyes in gloomy thought; and, as the heedless insects hovered round the gaudy net-work, Mr. Bumble would heave a deep sigh, while a more gloomy shadow overspread his countenance.
在简·奥斯汀的《傲慢与偏见》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- She had always spoken to him as she would to any other gentle-man; she made not the smallest objection to his joining in the society of the neighbourhood nor to his leaving the par-ish occasionally for a week or two, to visit his relations.
-- 'While I can have my mornings to myself,' said she, 'it is enough I think it is no sacrifice to join occasionally in evening engagements.
-- Chapter 21 he discussion of Mr. Collins's offer was now nearly at an Tend, and Elizabeth had only to suffer from the uncom- fortable feelings necessarily attending it, and occasionally from some peevish allusions of her mother.
-- Miss Bennet accepted her aunt's invitation with pleasure; and the Bingleys were no otherwise in her thoughts at the same time, than as she hoped by Caroline's not living in the same house with her brother, she might occasionally spend a morning with her, without any danger of seeing him.
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