fitful
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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]
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fitful (比較級 more fitful,最高級 most fitful)
- (棄用) 抽搐的
- c. 1606 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Macbeth”, 出自 Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, 出版於 1623, →OCLC, [Act III, scene ii],頁號 140,列號 2:
- Duncane is in his Graue: / After Lifes fitfull Feuer, he ſleepes well, / Treaſon ha's done his worſt: not Steele, not Poyſon, / Mallice domeſtique, forraine Leuie, nothing, / Can touch him further.
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- (引申义) 断断续续的,间歇的,不规则的,一阵一阵的
- 近義詞: capricious、changeable、changing、erratic、shifting、spasmodic;亦參見Thesaurus:discontinuous
- 反義詞: unfitful;亦參見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.
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- ↑ “fitful, adj.”, OED Online , Oxford, Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press, September 2021; “fitful, adj.”, Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–present.