Fitful
['fɪtfʊl;-f(ə)l] or ['fɪtfəl]
解釋/意思:
(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' .
編輯:玛杰里--From WordNet
解釋/意思:
(a.) Full of fits; irregularly variable; impulsive and unstable.
校對:莫蒂默
同義詞及近義詞：
a. Variable, irregular, spasmodic, impulsive, unstable, fickle, whimsical, fanciful, capricious, fantastic, humorsome, odd.
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同義詞及反義詞：
SYN:Capricious, fickle, unstable, restless, inconstant, mutable, impulsive,desultory, fanciful, unequal, irregular
ANT:Regular, equable, systematic, orderly, calculable
校對:贾斯廷
例句/造句/用法:
- And that amazes me most in you, Steerforth--that you should be contented with such fitful uses of your powers. 查理斯·狄更斯. 大衛·科波菲爾.
- 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. 雪麗.
- 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. 雪麗.
- The fire of Dorothea's anger was not easily spent, and it flamed out in fitful returns of spurning reproach. 喬治·艾略特. 米德爾馬契.
- 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. 維萊特.
- 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. 簡·愛.
- Justice was fitful and law venal. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- 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. 湯瑪斯·哈代. 還鄉.
- 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. 弗蘭克·路易斯·戴爾. 愛迪生的生平和發明.
- Yes--'after life's fitful fever they sleep well,' I muttered. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 簡·愛.
- How evanescent, fugitive, fitful she looked--slim and swift as a northern streamer! 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪麗.
- For many years, she kept up a capricious, fitful sort of correspondence. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 維萊特.
- 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. 查理斯·狄更斯. 小杜麗.
- 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. 查理斯·狄更斯. 我們共同的朋友.
- The stranger, taking advantage of this fitful illumination of his visage, looked intently and wonderingly at him. 查理斯·狄更斯. 小杜麗.
- Twice more in all; but, the last spell of work was feeble and fitful. 查理斯·狄更斯. 雙城記.
- Thus the glimpses we had of the grand panorama below were only fitful and unsatisfactory. 馬克·吐溫. 傻子出國記.
校對:贾斯廷