in fits and starts
US /ɪn fɪts ænd stɑrts/
・UK /ɪn fɪts ænd stɑ:ts/
B2 中高級
adv. phr.斷斷續續地，不連貫地
He worked on his project in fits and starts over the year.
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古巴正在對美國發動祕密戰嗎？| 全球故事 (Is Cuba waging a secret campaign against the US? | The Global Story)
- But on the foreign policy front, you know, the administration has been building a case in fits and starts over the, you know, the last few months about Cuba's national security threat in a way that would perhaps tee up some kind of military operation, right?
但在外交政策方面，你知道，政府在過去幾個月裡，斷斷續續地在建立一個關於古巴國家安全威脅的論述，或許是為了準備某種軍事行動，對吧？
華特·艾薩克森談他稱之為「史上最偉大的一句話」！ (Walter Isaacson on what he calls 'The Greatest Sentence Ever Written')
- so do we, as a country, as over the course of generations, we have lived up to the promise in fits and starts.
我們國家也是，經過幾代人的努力，我們斷斷續續地實現了這個承諾。
- So it's a sentence that keeps pushing us forward, even though our progress comes in fits and starts.
所以這句話不斷推動我們前進，即使我們的進步是斷斷續續的。
Ben Wikler 與 Geoff Bennett 在《Settle In》節目中暢談民主黨的計畫！ (Ben Wikler and Geoff Bennett discuss the Democrats’ plan on 'Settle In')
- And the circle of freedom kept expanding in fits and starts and contractions sometimes.
而自由的範圍，時而曲折前進，時而收縮，不斷擴大。
