sporadic
adjective /spəˈrædɪk/
/spəˈrædɪk/
- happening only occasionally or at intervals that are not regular
偶尔发生的；间或出现的；阵发性的；断断续续的 - sporadic fighting/gunfire/violence
零星的战斗/枪声/暴力 - sporadic outbreaks of the disease
那种疾病的散发
- Sporadic fighting continued through the next day.
零星的战斗持续到第二天。 - Sporadic gunfire was reported each night.
报道称每夜都有零星的炮火。 - The findings are derived from sporadic and statistically unreliable surveys.
这些发现来自零星的、统计上不可靠的调查。 - There are sporadic outbreaks of violence.
零星爆发了暴力事件。
Collocations DictionarySporadic is used with these nouns:- fighting
- gunfire
- outbreak
- …
词源late 17th cent.: via medieval Latin from Greek sporadikos, from sporas, sporad- ‘scattered’; related to speirein ‘to sow’. - sporadic fighting/gunfire/violence