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sporadic

/spuh-rad-ik/US // spəˈræd ɪk //UK // (spəˈrædɪk) //

零星的,零星,零散的,零碎的

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Definitions

adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1
    • : appearing or happening at irregular intervals in time; occasional: sporadic renewals of enthusiasm.
    • : appearing in scattered or isolated instances, as a disease.
    • : isolated, as a single instance of something; being or occurring apart from others.
    • : occurring singly or widely apart in locality: the sporadic growth of plants.

Synonyms & Antonyms

adj.on and off

Examples

  • Also, heat consistency can be a bit sporadic depending on the temperature outside.

  • Orders are sporadic — sometimes four or five come in one night, sometimes just one per week.

  • Dating during the pandemic has been pretty sporadic for him, too.

  • Looking up Spector’s bylined stories over the decades that mention Fauci, one finds that the pattern of their contact appears more sporadic than this book and its marketing material suggest.

  • There have only been sporadic instances of outdoor transmission.

  • This is where the sporadic and hectic handling of the romance in the movies fails.

  • The chanting—so much a part of protests here for the past 100-plus days—was sporadic through Monday night.

  • I left Lebanon in June 2012, but we kept in sporadic touch via Facebook.

  • Sporadic riots and fires did break out later during the festival.

  • Since then there have been a few sporadic accounts of what happened.

  • Then a silence ensued, broken at first by sporadic and staccato remarks, then becoming as dense as the silences of the night.

  • Then sporadic rumours began to creep about, and the atmosphere became charged.

  • In the Third Culture Epoch there was found “copper, with sporadic appearance of low percentage of tin.”

  • Three times the old blood-feud had broken into sporadic outbursts, and three men had been shot.

  • The other two are genuinely new creations, if we except certain sporadic beginnings that occur in the transitional culture.