1.基本义
Happening sometimes but not often or regularly
e.g: Although I am well travelled, I have
mostly visited different parts of my own country and have made only occasional overseas trips.
2- 为什么会选择这个词语？
Occasion- 场合，时机，特别时刻
Occasional-偶尔的
Occasionally- 偶尔地
Sometimes, from time to time, every now and then, 可以用occasional/occsionally替代，尤其是书面表达中
e.g： Johnny Chan is formidable poker
player and only loses very occasionally.
e.g：An occasional planes passes overhead, perhaps to La Guardia, perhaps, to JFK. (Two airports in New Yorks, La Guardia, JFK)
e.g: He occasionally regretted the shame he had brought on his family, but for his victims and relatives he felt nothing.
3- 翻译：
Lucy is good at landscape painting, but occasionally she had done oil painting.
答案：
a)Lucy is especially good at traditional Chinese landscape painting, but occasionally he does oil too.
b)Though an expert on Chinese landscape painting, Lucy does occasional oil painting too.
4-造句：
a)Although I mostly fell into condition of being homesick, I only made occasional visit to my hometown at the end of year.
b)Although eminent name on writing poetry, he occasionally writes essay too.
c) He occasionally regretted the mistake on misleading customer to wrong direction, but for consequent huge economic losses he refused to take responsibility.
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