单词 | usually |
释义 | usually (once / 66 pages) adv If you usually do something, that’s what you do on a normal day. Tonight you might be making a seven-course meal to celebrate your birthday, even though usually you just get take-out pizza. Usual comes from the word use, and implies "the most common use." A screwdriver usually drives screws into something, or takes them out. Unusually, you have strung your screwdriver on a chain and are wearing it as a necklace. You can also say usually to describe the normal state of things: "On New Year’s Eve, this usually quiet street erupts with noise." WORD FAMILYusual: unusual, usualest, usually, usualness+/unusual: unusually, unusualness USAGE EXAMPLESUsually the nimblest of leaders, Roosevelt unexpectedly equivocated. Wall Street Journal(Jan 02, 2017) When he plays well and cuts down on mistakes, they usually win. Washington Times(Jan 02, 2017) The money sent back usually gets reinvested locally, he said, "in better schooling for kids, better care for the elderly, and better housing." Reuters(Jan 02, 2017) adv under normal conditions usually she was late Syn|Ant commonly, normally, ordinarily, unremarkably outstandingly, remarkably, unco, unusually to a remarkable degree or extent |
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