as often as not

基本解释

During foggy weather the trains are late as often as not.
有雾的时候，火车往往晚点。
It seems like an increasingly alien concept, picking up a phone without knowing who is on the other end, so as often as not I let the answerphone pick up.
在完全不知道对方是谁的情况下拿起话筒，越来越像是外星人的做法。
As often as not the buses are late on foggy days.
遇多雾天气时，公共汽车经常晚点。

She often said: "You must never so much as think if you like it or not, if it is bearable or not.
This is actually very representative of when you do research in the laboratory, you will find often things do not work quite exactly as they worked 20 minutes ago when you just checked it in your office, for example.
在实验室做研究时,这个实际上是非常具有代表性的，举个例子,当时只是在办公室核查它时,你经常会发现事物无法,像它们20分钟之前那样精确的工作。
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We can often better understand the dialogues by seeing Socrates as putting forward certain positions that he does not think are altogether adequate.
通过了解那些由苏格拉底提出,但他自己也觉得不充分的观点,我们可以更好地理解这些对话作品
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In Third World rhetoric, "corruption" as often as not is a euphemism for political deviation.
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