| 1. | Youth only recognizes age by fits and starts .
青春只是偶尔认识老年。 |
| 2. | I have been working at the book by fits and starts during the past five or six years .
近五六年来我一直断断续续地写这本书。 |
| 3. | She did everything by fits and starts , but stuck to nothing long
她做事总是凭一时高兴，什么事都干不长。 |
| 4. | My watch goes by fits and starts
我的手表走走停停。 |
| 5. | 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。 |
| 6. | He doesn t . except by fits and starts . he can speak perfectly well , for him
呵，他的土话是他觉得要说晨才说的，象他这种人，他能说很正确的英语的。 |
| 7. | He ' d been trying to learn spanish for three years , but i tell him it ' s no use studying by fits and starts
3年来他一直在学习西班牙语，但我对他说断断续续地学习是学不到什么的。 |
| 8. | The intervening decade was characterized by fits and starts , as the u . s . - china relationship drifted without rationale or new sense of purpose
在其后的十年里，美中关系曲折进退，摇摆不定，缺乏纲领依据或新的方向感。 |
| 9. | One man was reading by fits and starts a stained by coffee evening journal ; another , the card with the natives choza de ; another , the seaman s discharge
有个人不时地读上一会儿满是咖啡污迹的晚报，另一个瞧着那张印有土著窝棚95的明信片，还有一个在看水手的解雇证书。 |
