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| Processed by: | richwarm (2017-03-02 23:00:35 GMT) |
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<< review queue entry 59769 - submitted by 'manuka' >> 往往 means a situation or condition would often happen in the past. For example, you can say: “I used to/would often jog in the morning.” 我早上往往會跑步。 See 我早上時常會跑步 for the difference with "often" in present tense. ------------------------- Editor: It looks like you either uncritically read the following blog post or you wrote it yourself. https://qingwengrammar.wordpress.com/2015/11/14/qingwen-often-pt-1-2/ (往往會跑步 appears nowhere on the Web except on that page.) 往往 doesn't mean "a situation or condition would often happen in the past", as claimed in that blog. It's easy to find counterexamples. Here are a few: 1) 遺憾的是，病毒感染往往會留下終身烙印， Unfortunately, the viral infection frequently leaves scars for a lifetime. 2) 每次破獲一個案件後，只要耐心抽絲剝繭，往往會追到另一個集團，這種「案中查案」方式，占了破獲案件的很大比例。 Every time police break a case, they only have to patiently follow the threads and often they will come upon another organization. These instances of "a case within a case" account for a large proportion of police successes. 3) 背包客的旅行目的不僅在於遊覽風景名勝，更在於體驗一段「和異鄉人一樣的生活」，並打破語言和文化的樊籬，與當地人做朋友，因此往往會主動且積極地與當地民眾、其他旅人互動，分享彼此的價值觀及所見所聞。 Backpackers are interested in more than seeing the sights; they hope also to experience how other people live and to get past linguistic and cultural barriers to make friends with locals. As a result, they actively engage with locals and other travelers, discussing their values and talking about what they've seen. ---- Depending on context, the situation *may* be one that occurred in the past, but that sense of "past" is not conveyed by 往往. (In the following example, it's 過去 that indicates that it's something that *used* to happen.) 過去，漫長的暑假過後，往往會出現所謂的「九月墮胎潮」， In the past, there used to be a "September abortion wave" following the summer vacation, ---- 往, used singly as in 往事, can mean "past; previous", but as one dictionary (GF) notes, “往往”的词义跟“往”的各义项都不同. They also make the following point: “往往”可以指将来发生的事, which directly contradicts your claim. |
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# 往往 往往 [wang3wang3] /Used to./ |