His financial problems hit the headlines with almost metronomic regularity.

他的财政问题几乎定期成为头条新闻。

Objective: to explore the role of metronomic therapy on treatment of advanced primary hepatocarcinoma.

目的：探索节拍疗法在原发性肝癌治疗中的作用。

In fact, the only emerging pattern is one of wildly see-sawing fortunes, as coastal towns change hands with almost metronomic regularity.

事实上，这种出现的模式只是双方失控的拉锯战之一，因为沿海城镇掌控权易主几乎与钟摆一样规律的摆荡。

Research into so-called 'extinction events' for our planet over the past 500 million years - twice as long as any previous studies - has proved that they crop up with metronomic regularity.

科学家研究了过去5亿年间地球上发生的所谓的“灭绝事件”，时间跨度是先前任何一项研究的两倍。此次研究证实大灭绝的出现是有时间规律的。