always: [13] In Old English, the expression was alne weg, literally ‘all the way’. It seems likely that this was used originally in the physical sense of ‘covering the complete distance’, but by the time it starts to appear in texts (King Alfred’s is the first recorded use, in his translation of Boethius’s De consolatione philosophiae around 888) it already meant ‘perpetually’. Alway survived into modern English, albeit as an archaism, but began to be replaced as the main form by always in the 12th century.
The final -s is genitive, not plural, and was originally added to all as well as way: alles weis. It has a generalizing force, much as in modern English one might say of a morning for ‘every morning’. => way
always (adv.)
mid-14c., compound of Old English phrase ealne weg "always, quite, perpetually," literally "all the way," with accusative of space or distance, though the oldest recorded usages refer to time; see all + way (n.). The adverbial genitive -s appeared early 13c. and is now the standard, though the variant alway survived into 1800s. OED speculates allway was originally of space or distance, "but already in the oldest Eng. transferred to an extent of time."
雙語例句
1. No matter where you go in life or how old you get, there's always something new to learn about. After all, life is full of surprises.
不管你生活在哪里，你有多少歲，總有新東西要學習，畢竟，生活總是充滿驚喜。
來自金山詞霸 每日一句
2. The ideological divisions between the parties aren't always obvious.
政黨之間的意識形態界線并不總是涇渭分明的。
來自柯林斯例句
3. There has always been a difference between community radio and commercial radio.
社區廣播電臺和商業廣播電臺一直是有區別的。
來自柯林斯例句
4. It is nearly always women who are the primary care givers.
從事初級保健護理工作的幾乎都是女性。
來自柯林斯例句
5. She's going to be fine. She always was pretty strong.