every second year/person/thing etcHMN a) the second, then the fourth, then the sixth year etc 每两年/每两人/每两样东西等 The nurse comes every second day. 护士隔天来一次。
b) used to emphasize that, in a group of similar things, there is too much of one particular thing 〔用于强调某一批类似的事物中，某一特征的东西太多〕 Every second house seemed to be boarded up. 大部分房子都好像用木板封上了。
every second year/person/thing etc• Dalziel was well known, hailing and being hailed by nearly every second person they passed, it seemed to Pascoe.
→ every second year/person/thing etc at second1(1)