Because of other commitments I can only write my book in fits and starts.

由于还承担着其他任务，我只能断断续续地写书。

The machine tends to go forward in fits and starts.

这机器往往是时断时续地前进。

The Blue Dogs' evolution has proceeded in fits and starts.

蓝狗的“进化”时断时续。

We all can see the economy is recovering in fits and starts.

我们都能看到经济复苏是时作时辍。

The replies to the advertisement are arriving in fits and starts.

终于，有些回信开始陆续寄到办公室来了。

As it has for more than two centuries, progress will come in fits and starts.

两个多世纪以来，一直如此，我们总会断断续续地取得进步。

We have had two very poor games in succession and we are only performing in fits and starts.

我们连续进行了两场非常糟糕的比赛，我们只是间断地在表演。

In fits and starts, and with various reverses, the situation at the plant has come closer to being under control.

通过一系列合适的方案，局势开始发生转变，核电站逐渐被控制住了。

As it has for more than two centuries, progress will come in fits and starts. It's not always a straight line. It's not always a smooth path.

正如两个多世纪以来一样，进展的取得将是断断续续，并非总是一条直线，并非总是一帆风顺。

It's a journey that will require each of us to persevere through setbacks, and fight for every inch of progress, even when it comes in fits and starts.

在这条征途上，我们每一个人都需要在遇到挫折的时候毫不气馁，为取得任何一点进展——即使是零零星星的进展——而努力奋进。

Even the calendar, the rhythm of the months, had become a mere convention; the moon went forward in fits and starts, as though it were about to collapse.

日历和月份的节律将变成一种过往的习俗；月亮时断时续的行进着，就好像随时就要崩溃一样。

Their conclusion, published recently in Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics, is that in fits and starts over the past century the air became twice as dusty.

他们的结论最近刊登在大气物理化学上：始于上世纪起到现在，空气中的尘埃量翻了一番。这个结论符合他们的分析。

Still, he warned that paying for the wars in Iraq in Afghanistan in fits and starts undermines military planning and risks the gains made by American troops.

他仍然警告阿富汗伊拉克战争的适当开销和启动破坏了军事计划并且使美军取得的成果遭受危险。

The program was active in fits and starts, and it was essentially killed in 2004 because it was deemed ineffective, former and current intelligence officials said.

据前任及现任情报人员称，该计划曾间歇性地被启动并由于缺乏实用性在2004年被中止。

It was ferociously hot, and the air quality became so bad that by the evening the noise of nearby trains stuttered in in fits and starts, distorted through the shifting air.

天气非常酷热，空气品质奇差无比，傍晚时分，邻近的火车缓步前进的吵杂声此起彼落，那吵杂声在变换的气流里失了真。

Yet for the right job—one that can be done in fits and starts, and the results easily monitored and evaluated from afar—the advent of mobile computing does have the power to transform the workplace.

然而对于确切的工作，人们能决定什么时候做，什么时候不做，并且结果能在远处容易监测和评估的，移动设施的出现使办公地点的转换完全可能。

The earth has been warming in fits and starts for decades, and a large majority of climatologists say that is because humans are releasing heat-trapping gases like carbon dioxide into the atmosphere.

最近几十年地球在逐渐变暖，大多数气候学家认为这是因为人类不断地向大气中释放温室气体，如二氧化碳。

Think about what you can conceivably get done in a 5 or 10 minute period of time, or what you can do over several such blocks of time without major fits and starts.

设想看看，你用5-10分钟尽可能做到的事情，以及你每天毫无目标所浪费的细碎时间。

As you may know that most people in China learn English by fits and starts.

正如你所知道的，中国大多数人学习英语都是忽冷忽热。