fitful
英语
[编辑]词源
[编辑]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]
发音
[编辑]形容词
[编辑]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”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act III, scene ii], page 140, column 2:
- (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
- 1851年 11月14日，赫爾曼·梅爾維爾，「The Musket」，收錄於白鯨記，1st American版，紐約州紐約：Harper & Brothers；London: Richard Bentley，→OCLC，567頁：
- The cabin lamp—taking long swings this way and that— was burning fitfully, and casting fitful shadows upon the old man’s bolted door,—a thin one, with fixed blinds inserted, in place of upper panels.
- （請為本引文添加中文翻譯）
- 2012 October 27, “The economy: Don’t say ‘green shoots’: Britain emerges from its second recession in four years”, in The Economist[1], London: Economist Group, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 29 October 2012:
- So fitful has Britain’s economy been that any good news is understandably snatched at.
- （請為本引文添加中文翻譯）
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[编辑]参考资料
[编辑]- ↑ “fitful, adj.”, in OED Online
, Oxford: Oxford University Press, September 2021; “fitful, adj.”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.
