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。
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《格兰特船长的女儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- However, it was not more than forty miles now that they had to go, and Thaouka would not refuse to give a lift occasionally to a tired pedestrian, or even to a couple at a pinch.
-- Occasionally a swarm of par-roquets flew along a distant path, and lighted it up for an instant with gay colors; but otherwise, solemn silence reigned in this vast green temple, and the tramp of the horses, a few words exchanged with each other by the riders, the grinding noise of the wheels, and from time to time a cry from Ayrton to stir up his lazy team, were the only sounds which disturbed this immense solitude.
-- Stifling vapors filled the air, and occasionally bright flashes of lightning, the reflections of a distant storm, lighted up the sky with a fiery glare.
-- The two children then relapsed into silence, gazing out into the dark night, and giving way to long reveries, interrupted occasionally by a question or remark from one to the other.
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《白痴》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- At half-past twelve, the table was laid in the small dining-room, and occasionally the general himself appeared at the family gathering, if he had time.
-- Then she took to helping him without leave; and he saw how valuable her assistance was to him, and did not drive her away again; on the contrary, he occasionally gave her the remnants of his dinner, bread and cheese.
-- Occasionally the children came with me; when they did so, they would stand some way off and keep guard over us, so as to tell me if anybody came near.
-- By nature taciturn, he now merely growled occasionally like a bear, and glared contemptuously upon the 'beggar,' who, being somewhat of a man of the world, and a diplomatist, tried to insinuate himself into the bear's good graces.
-- It rose at times to a shout, and was interrupted occasionally by bursts of laughter.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《隐形人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- And inside, in the artificial darkness of the parlour, into which only one thin jet of sunlight penetrated, the stranger, hungry we must suppose, and fearful, hidden in his uncomfortable hot wrappings, pored through his dark glasses upon his paper or chinked his dirty little bottles, and occasionally swore savagely at the boys, audible if invisible, outside the windows.
在詹姆斯·费尼莫尔·库柏的《最后的摩根战士》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Occasionally he would stop; and in the midst of a breathing stillness, that the dull but increasing roar of the waterfall only served to render more impressive, he would listen with painful intenseness, to catch any sounds that might arise from the slumbering forest.
-- At length, however, the mournful notes of a whip-poor-will be-came blended with the moanings of an owl; his heavy eyes occasionally sought the bright rays of the stars, and he then fancied he saw them through the fallen lids.
-- The dying fires in the clearing cast a dim and uncertain light on the dusky figures that were silently stalking to and fro; and occasionally a brighter gleam than common glanced into the lodge, and exhibited the figure of Uncas still maintaining its upright attitude near the dead body of the Huron.
-- He was seated on a pile of brush, a few twigs from which occasionally fed his low fire, with his head leaning on his arm, in a posture of melancholy musing.
-- Occasionally the air breathed through the crevices of the hut, and the low flame that fluttered about the embers of the fire threw their wavering light on the person of the sullen recluse.
在华盛顿·欧文的《睡谷的传说》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He assisted the farmers occasionally in the lighter labors of their farms, helped to make hay, mend-ed the fences, took the horses to water, drove the cows from pasture, and cut wood for the winter fire.
在简·奥斯汀的《傲慢与偏见》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'I shall not say you are mistaken,' he replied, 'because you could not really believe me to entertain any design of alarming you; and I have had the pleasure of your acquain-tance long enough to know that you find great enjoyment in occasionally professing opinions which in fact are not your own.'
在简·奥斯汀的《理智与情感》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "I believe you are right, my love; it will be better that there should be no annuity in the case; whatever I may give them occasionally will be of far greater assistance than a yearly allowance, because they would only enlarge their style of living if they felt sure of a larger income, and would not be sixpence the richer for it at the end of the year.
-- She found him, however, perfectly the gentleman in his behaviour to all his visitors, and only occasionally rude to his wife and her mother; she found him very capable of being a pleasant companion, and only prevented from being so always, by too great an aptitude to fancy himself as much superior to people in general, as he must feel himself to be to Mrs. Jennings and Charlotte.
在西奥多·德莱塞的《嘉莉妹妹》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Occasionally we need some one."
-- She was vaguely feeling that she would come in contact with the great owners, that her work would be where grave, stylishly dressed men occasionally look on.
-- Her brown shoes peeped occasionally from beneath her skirt.
-- They were at their little table in the room which might have been used for a kitchen, where Carrie occasionally served a meal.
-- Evenings, when still at his post, he would occasionally read in the evening papers incidents concerning celebrities whom he knew--whom he had drunk a glass with many a time.
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