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at a time/at one time

核心问题

请讲一讲 at a timeat one time 这两个介词短语的区别。

词典解答

at a time 是指“一次”(例句见 time 3^{3} ),at one time 则是指“一度”“从前(有个时期)”“过去某个时间”(at an unspecified time in the past):

  1. At one time I lived in Japan. (RCD) 我曾一度住在日本。

  2. At one time most school teachers were men, but today there are more women than men.

(DAI) 以前中小学教员大都是男的,如今女的反比男的多了。

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