Tchaikovsky's enthusiastic music tumbles forward in fits and starts, even cutting short some musical phrases to capture her impatience.

柴可夫斯基的音乐同样充满热情一阵一阵地涌上前来，他甚至将某些乐句缩短来捕捉她的急性子。

Chief Economist Mark Zandi of Moody's Analytics says that's just one illustration of how the economy has been moving in fits and starts.

穆迪分析公司的首席经济学家马克·赞迪表示，这只是经济发展断断续续的一个例证。

Technology advances by fits and starts.

【fit】技术进步断断续续。

He spoke in fits and starts.

【fit】他时断时续地说着话。

Lacking nerve, they fisted by fits and starts.

因为紧张，他们的手间歇地握成拳头。

By fits and starts, they recited several stanzas of poem every day.

间歇地，他们每天背诵几节诗歌。

He sleeps in fits and starts, wakes up sweating, wakes up shivering.

他睡得断断续续， 醒来时满头大汗， 醒来时浑身发抖。

This strategy, after a decade of fits and starts, has failed to bear fruit.

经过十年的试错，这个策略未能取得成果。

Tchaikovsky’s enthusiastic music tumbles forward in fits and starts, even cutting short some musical phrases to capture her impatience.

柴可夫斯基热情的音乐时断时续，甚至剪短了一些乐句来表达她的不耐烦。

Nekhludoff read much, but only by fits and starts, and the want of an answer he ascribed to such superficial reading.

聂赫留朵夫读了很多书， 但只是时断时续， 他把得不到答案归咎于这种肤浅的阅读。

There were a lot of fits and starts as I worked hard to convince people it was worth getting it off the ground.

在我努力说服人们值得将它付诸实践的过程中，有很多断断续续的事情发生。

Despite the huge increase in government debt over the past three decades, fiscal stimulus has come in fits and starts; enough to prevent total economic collapse, but not to ignite stronger growth.

尽管过去三十年政府债务大幅增加，但财政刺激措施时断时续；足以防止经济全面崩溃， 但不足以激发更强劲的增长。

The conversation carried on like this through our starters (smoked salmon for Lily, salad for Mrs Traynor and me), stalling and moving forward in fits and starts, like someone learning to drive a car.

我们的开胃菜（莉莉的烟熏三文鱼，特雷纳夫人和我的沙拉）的对话就这样进行， 断断续续地停顿和前进， 就像学习开车的人一样。

That first week moved in fits and starts, like the first day, with me watching Agnes for signals in the way that Mum used to watch our old dog when her bladder got leaky.

— 第一周时断时续， 就像第一天一样，我看着艾格尼丝寻找信号， 就像妈妈在老狗膀胱漏水时看她一样。