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单词 seldom or ever
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seldom or ever
c. seldom or ever: by confusion of ‘seldom if ever’ and ‘seldom or never’. (Cf. rarely or ever at rarely adv. Phrases 2b.)
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1752 A. Murphy Gray's Inn Jrnl. No. 14. ⁋2 The Players seldom or ever throw out the Voice with any Vehemence.
1771 H. Lawrence Contempl. Man I. ii. i. 83 All those People who were afflicted with any Illness, seldom or ever survived it.
1804–6 S. Smith Elem. Sketches Moral Philos. (1850) v. 75 Dreamers..who walk in their sleep have seldom or ever the most distant recollections that they have been dreaming at all.
1827 D. Johnson Sketches Indian Field Sports (ed. 2) 100 It is what they seldom or ever do.
1873 D. Clark Pen Photographs 62 The smooth flowing notes of a rhythmal chorus are there, but seldom or ever the battle scenes of a grand Oratorio.
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