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In this episode, I am going to teach you about a group of idioms. And these idioms work like adverbs of frequency.
在这一集中，我将教你一组习语。这些习语的作用类似于频率副词。
Do you remember what adverbs of frequency are? These are words that say how often something happens.
你还记得什么是频率副词吗？这些词表示某事发生的频率。
These are words like never, sometimes, occasionally, always. Those are adverbs of frequency.
这些词包括never、sometimes、occasionally、always。这些都是频率副词。
And today we are going to talk about three idioms that work like adverbs of frequency. Because these are idioms, they are not really things that you can try to understand.
今天我们将讨论三个作用类似于频率副词的习语。因为这些是习语，所以它们并不是你可以尝试去理解的东西。
Like other idioms, you just need to learn them as one whole unit, one whole piece, instead of looking at each part and trying to understand it that way.
和其他习语一样，你只需要把它们作为一个整体来学习，而不是看每个部分并试图以这种方式去理解它。
The first of these idioms is "every once in a while." Every once in a while. That's every: e-v-e-r-y, once: o-n-c-e, in, a, while: w-h-i-l-e. Every once in a while.
第一个是“every once in a while”，由五个单词every、once、in、a、while构成。
"Every once in a while" means occasionally, not very often. I think "every once in a while" describes something that happens more frequently than rarely, but maybe less frequently than sometimes or occasionally.
“Every once in a while”的意思是偶尔，不是经常。我认为“Every once in a while”描述的是比“rarely”更频繁发生的事情，但可能比“sometimes”或“occasionally”更不频繁。
It can be hard to think about these different adverbs that way. There's not really an exact meaning for some of these.
很难以这种方式思考这些不同的副词。其中一些并没有确切的含义。
But I think "every once in a while" sounds a little bit less common, less frequent than "sometimes" and a little bit more frequent than "rarely."
但我认为“every once in a while”听起来不太常见，比“sometimes”更不常见，比“rarely”更常见。
And you can see what I mean when I call this an idiom. Because "every once in a while" doesn't really make any sense if you look at the parts.
当我称其为习语时，您可以明白我的意思。因为“every once in a while”如果拆开来看各个部分，实际上没有任何意义。
I think it's impossible to understand if you look at each part. So you just need to understand that the whole phrase, "every once in a while," has one meaning.
我认为如果查看每个部分，就不可能理解。因此，您只需要理解整个短语，“every once in a while”只有一个含义。
The next idiom is "every now and then." Every now and then. That's every, now: n-o-w, and, then: t-h-e-n. Every now and then. Just like "every once in a while," "every now and then" is somewhere between "rarely" and "sometimes."
下一个习语是“every now and then”。由四个单词every、now、and、then构成。就像“every once in a while”一样，“every now and then”介于“rarely”和“sometimes”之间。
Maybe you are seeing the pattern here. Both of these idioms have the word every, and they use the word every in a strange way that's hard to understand.
也许你看到了这里的规律。这两个习语都有单词every，而且它们使用every的方式很奇怪，很难理解。
Just remember "every now and then." That's one whole phrase. You don't need to try to understand each part.
只要记住“every now and then”就可以了。这是一个完整的短语。你不需要尝试理解每个部分。
And the last of these interesting and strange idioms that I'm going to tell you about today is very similar. It is "every so often." Every so often. That's every, so: s-o, often: o-f-t-e-n. Every so often.
今天我要告诉你的最后一个有趣而奇怪的习语非常相似。它是“every so often”，由三个单词every、so、often构成。
This idiom is also for something that happens more frequently than rarely, but less frequently than sometimes.
这个习语也表示比rarely更频繁地发生但比sometimes更少发生的事情。
These three idioms all use the word every in a strange way, and they all mean basically the same thing.
这三个习语都以奇怪的方式使用了every这个词，它们的意思基本上都是一样的。
"Every once in a while," "every now and then," "every so often." These are three interesting idioms that I think you should know.
“Every once in a while”、“every now and then”、“every so often”。我认为你应该知道这三个有趣的习语。
