by fits

常见例句

Patient: I was choked repeatedly by fits of a violent dry cough.
病人：一阵阵的干咳还使我喘不过气来。
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Reading gis not the night five drum, is work by fits and starts.
读不在三更五鼓，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.
这种宇宙论的主要兴趣只在于揭示出所谓普遍的宇宙规律，例如说，自然界中没有飞跃。
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Granted, this is government by fits and starts, hobbled by the whims of voters.
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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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