by fits

常見例句

Patient: I was choked repeatedly by fits of a violent dry cough.
病人：一陣陣的干咳還使我喘不過氣來。
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Reading gis not the night five drum, is work by fits and starts.
讀不在三更五鼓，功只怕一曝十寒。。
It was therefore a chief concern of this study to lay down what were called general cosmological laws: for instance, that Nature does not act by fits an starts.
這種宇宙論的主要興趣只在于揭示出所謂普遍的宇宙規(guī)律，例如說，自然界中沒有飛躍。
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Granted, this is government by fits and starts, hobbled by the whims of voters.
ECONOMIST: Lexington
That term has already proved a gloomy failure—a two-year coma interrupted by fits.
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While their initial efforts were marked by only fits of growth, they continued to water their deep-sown seed of opportunity so it might flourish into full bloom.
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