Fitful

(adj.) intermittently stopping and starting; 'fitful (or interrupted) sleep'; 'off-and-on static' .

(adj.) occurring in spells and often abruptly; 'fitful bursts of energy'; 'spasmodic rifle fire' .

编辑:玛杰里

• And that amazes me most in you, Steerforth--that you should be contented with such fitful uses of your powers. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 大卫·科波菲尔.
• Her accents obeyed the fitful impulse of the wind; they swelled as its gusts rushed on, and died as they wandered away. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.
• The strong emotion was rarely suffered to influence her tongue, and even her eye refused it more than a furtive and fitful conquest. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.
• The fire of Dorothea's anger was not easily spent, and it flamed out in fitful returns of spurning reproach. 乔治·艾略特. 米德尔马契.
• I followed this man along a rudely-paved street, lit now by a fitful gleam of moonlight; he brought me to the inn. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 维莱特.
• Real affection, it seemed, he could not have for me; it had been only fitful passion: that was balked; he would want me no more. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 简·爱.
• Justice was fitful and law venal. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• The light raised by her breath had been very fitful, and a momentary irradiation of flesh was all that it had disclosed of her face. 托马斯·哈代. 还乡.
• It is worth pausing just a moment to glance at this man taking a fitful rest on a pile of iron pipe in a dingy building. 弗兰克·刘易斯·戴尔. 爱迪生的生平和发明.
• Yes--'after life's fitful fever they sleep well,' I muttered. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 简·爱.
• How evanescent, fugitive, fitful she looked--slim and swift as a northern streamer! 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.
• For many years, she kept up a capricious, fitful sort of correspondence. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 维莱特.
• She has done so for some years, and she is (if I may say so of a fellow-creature and a lady) fitful and uncertain to a fault, Mr Clennam. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 小杜丽.
• The fire being low and fitful, and the dusk gloomy, the whole stock seemed to be winking and blinking with both eyes, as Mr Venus did. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 我们共同的朋友.
• The stranger, taking advantage of this fitful illumination of his visage, looked intently and wonderingly at him. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 小杜丽.
• Twice more in all; but, the last spell of work was feeble and fitful. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 双城记.
• Thus the glimpses we had of the grand panorama below were only fitful and unsatisfactory. 马克·吐温. 傻子出国记.

校对:贾斯廷