| 单词 |
irregularly |
| 释义 |
irregularly, adv.|ɪˈrɛgjʊləlɪ|
[f. irregular + -ly2.]
In an irregular manner.
1. In a way not according to rule; with deviation from or violation of rule; lawlessly; anomalously, abnormally.
1591Percivall Sp. Dict., Irregularmente, irregularly, without rule. 1675Essex Papers (Camden) I. 300 There were 8 Aldermen & y⊇ Recorder most violently & irregularly thrust out of their places. 1764Goldsm. Trav. 326 With daring aims irregularly great. 1885Law Rep. 29 Chanc. Div. He considered..that the order had been irregularly made.
2. Without regularity, symmetry, or uniformity; without order of arrangement, formation, motion, succession, etc.; unevenly; in disorder.
1595Daniel Civ. Wars i. lxxxiv, Like to a riuer that..breakes his owne bed, Destroies his bounds and ouer-runs by force The neighbour fields irregularly spread. 1665Hooke Microgr. 36 The contraction is performed very unequally and irregularly. 1769Robertson Chas. V, xi. (1796) III. 262 The soldiers in garrison being paid irregularly. 1776Pennant Zool. III. 296 (Jod.) Marked with large, distinct, irregularly shaped spots of black. 1776–96Withering Brit. Plants (ed. 3) IV. 252 Irregularly serrated at the edges. 1878Jevons Prim. Pol. Econ. ii. 19 In some countries rain comes very irregularly and uncertainly. 1881Jowett Thucyd. I. 167 The islands..lying irregularly and not one behind the other. |
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