(adv.) on certain occasions or in certain cases but not always; 'sometimes she wished she were back in England'; 'sometimes her photography is breathtaking'; 'sometimes they come for a month; at other times for six months'.
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双语例句
Animal and vegetable matter buried in the depth of the earth sometimes undergoes natural distillation, and as a result gas is formed. 伯莎M.克拉克.科学通论.
Sometimes, Eustacia, I think it is a judgment upon you. 托马斯·哈代.还乡.
Strange shipping became more frequent, passing the Japanese headlands; sometimes ships were wrecked and sailors brought ashore. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯.世界史纲.
In the story of this passion, too, the development varies: sometimes it is the glorious marriage, sometimes frustration and final parting. 乔治·艾略特.米德尔马契.
I have thought that if Mr. Yeobright would like to pay me a visit sometimes he shouldn't stay away for want of asking. 托马斯·哈代.还乡.
Sometimes I would meet him in the neighbourhood lounging about and biting his nails. 查尔斯·狄更斯.荒凉山庄.
Sometimes their feet failed them, and they sank together in a heap; they were then propped up with the monitors' high stools. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特.简·爱.
Sometimes Mr. Claypole faints himself, but the result is the same. 查尔斯·狄更斯.雾都孤儿.
An acquaintance with the apprentices of booksellers enabled me sometimes to borrow a small one, which I was careful to return soon and clean. 本杰明·富兰克林.富兰克林自传.
And when I wait upon 'em, they'll say to me sometimes--WITH IT ON--thick, and no mistake--“How am I looking, Mowcher? 查尔斯·狄更斯.大卫·科波菲尔.
He won't do it unless he is very much worried, and only threatens it sometimes, when he gets tired of studying. 路易莎·梅·奥尔科特.小妇人.
I sometimes have sick fancies, she went on, and I have a sick fancy that I want to see some play. 查尔斯·狄更斯.远大前程.
Before that time we sit listening to a tale, a marvellous fiction, delightful sometimes, and sad sometimes, almost always unreal. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特.雪莉.
Good fruit, Sir Knight, said the yeoman, will sometimes grow on a sorry tree; and evil times are not always productive of evil alone and unmixed. 沃尔特·司各特.艾凡赫.
In the present state of Europe, the share of the landlord seldom exceeds a third, sometimes not a fourth part of the whole produce of the land. 亚当·斯密.国富论.
Furieusement sometimes, said she. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特.维莱特.
An old woman's advice is sometimes worth taking, sir, she said. 威尔基·柯林斯.白衣女人.
The trees and vines stretch across these narrow roadways sometimes and so shut out the sun that you seem to be riding through a tunnel. 马克·吐温.傻子出国记.
But sometimes a conqueror was afraid of the god he had conquered. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯.世界史纲.
I had also sometimes the honour of attending my master in his visits to others. 乔纳森·斯威夫特.格列佛游记.
Such sudden alternations from mental vacuity do sometimes occur thus quietly. 托马斯·哈代.还乡.
How dreadful to remember, perhaps, that she had sometimes even wished the old man away who was so swiftly hurried out of life! 查尔斯·狄更斯.荒凉山庄.
The agonies of remorse poison the luxury there is otherwise sometimes found in indulging the excess of grief. 玛丽·雪莱.弗兰肯斯坦.
Still, I go to Athens sometimes for amusement, and amusement requires money. 弗格斯·休姆.奇幻岛.
They _will_ sometimes obtrudebut how you can court them! 简·奥斯汀.爱玛.
They get victory sometimes, but they never get good-will, which would be of more use to them. 本杰明·富兰克林.富兰克林自传.
I suppose,' with a jerk, 'you have sometimes plucked a pear before it was ripe, Master Copperfield? 查尔斯·狄更斯.大卫·科波菲尔.
I am lonely, sometimes, but I dare say it's good for me, and. 路易莎·梅·奥尔科特.小妇人.
He glanced here, and he glanced there, sullenly but shrinkingly; and sometimes stopped and turned about, and looked all round him. 查尔斯·狄更斯.小杜丽.
Sometimes she writes Percival only, but very seldom--in nine cases out of ten she gives him his title. 威尔基·柯林斯.白衣女人.