Many Romani children attend school patchily if at all.

大多数罗姆儿童都不上学，要说有也很少。

One of Libya’s two mobile-phone networks is defunct and the other works only patchily.

利比亚有两家移动电话网络提供商，其中一家已经完全毁坏，另一家也几近瘫痪。

Firms gathered data slowly and patchily, through mechanisms not built for the purpose.

企业从非专属渠道缓慢而零散的收集数据。

The freeze has been applied patchily, but settlers and their backers are hailing its end as a moment of triumph.

这个冻结计划的实施过程磕磕绊绊，但是定居者和他们的支持者把它的结束誉为一次伟大的胜利。

Or the hillsides, patchily dusted so that in some places the grass shows through, clothing the slopes in a wavy pattern of tan and pale stripes.

山坡上，有的地方雪厚点，有的地方草色还露着； 这样，一道儿白，一道儿暗黄，给山们穿上一件带水纹的花衣；