英语
词源
源自fit (“抽搐；突然活跃”) + -ful (从名词构成形容词的后缀，“充满...的”，“倾向于...的”，“有...性质的”)。[1]
发音
形容词
fitful（比较级 more fitful，最高级 most fitful）
- (弃用) 抽搐的
- Template:RQ:Shakespeare Macbeth
- (引申义) 断断续续的，间歇的，不规则的，一阵一阵的
- 近义词： capricious、changeable、changing、erratic、shifting、spasmodic；亦参见Thesaurus:discontinuous
- 反义词： unfitful；亦参见Thesaurus:continuous
- His breathing was fitful.
- 他的呼吸不均匀。
- Troubled by her unfinished work, she fell into a fitful sleep.
- 因为受没有完成的工作折磨，她断断续续地睡着了。
- Template:RQ:Scott Lady of the Lake
- Template:RQ:Byron Siege of Corinth
- Template:RQ:Melville Moby-Dick
- 2012年10月27日，“The economy: Don’t say ‘green shoots’: Britain emerges from its second recession in four years”，出自 The Economist[1]，London:Economist Group, ISSN 0013-0613, OCLC 805074337, archived from the original on 29 October 2012:
- So fitful has Britain’s economy been that any good news is understandably snatched at.
- （请为本引文添加中文翻译）
衍生词汇
- fitfully
- fitfulness
- unfitful
相关词汇
- in fits and starts
参考资料
- ↑ “fitful, adj.”, OED Online
, Oxford, Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press, September 2021; “fitful, adj.”, Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–present.
