Intermittent is used to describe something that is not continuous or steady.

" 间歇性" 用来描述不连续或不稳定事物。

Human eyes tend to move in discrete jumps, called saccades.

人眼倾向于以不连续跳跃方， 称为扫视。

An action that was continual has now stopped or an action that wasn't continual is now starting.

一个连续作现在已经停止，或者一个不连续作现在开始。

The zone is narrower than Mr Krugman expected and its mid-point moves each morning in discrete steps.

该区域比克鲁格曼先生预期要窄，而且它中点每天早上都在不连续步骤中。

The chair is neither durable nor continuous, and its reality is limited to the recognition which you give it as an object.

椅子既不持久，也不连续，它实相仅限于你对它作为一个物体认可。

Even if you don't list the gaps on your CV you might be asked about inconsistencies in your work history and they need valid explanations.

即使你没有在简历中列出工作空窗期，你可能会被问到工作经历中不连续地方，而他们需要合理解释。

By the 1980s, this had improved a lot, but that discontinuous and awkward blending of phonemes still created that signature, robotic sound.

到 80 年代，这已经有了很大改善，但音素不连续和笨拙混合仍然创造了标志性机器人声音。

No, any consecutive three digits would have to be immune, and there’s no immune three digit number that starts with a 7.

不，任何连续三位数都必须是，并且没有以 7 开头三位数。

Experts state that this won't mean two years of continuous lockdown – it'll be more like several burst-like periods of social distancing.

专家表示，这并不意味着连续两年封锁——它更像是几次爆发社会隔离期。

I now came to realize why most of his stories were coming from the past and not necessarily present continuous, but it was always referring to the past.

我现在明白了为什么他大部分故事都来自过去，而不一定是现在连续，但它总是指是过去。

But with the working ant we have an insect differing greatly from its parents, yet absolutely sterile; so that it could never have transmitted successively acquired modifications of structure or instinct to its progeny.

但是对于工作蚂蚁， 我们有一种昆虫与其父母有很大不同， 但绝对不育；因此，它永远不可能将连续获得结构或本能改变传递给它后代。

Targan Bay—which had the merit of being easily got at—was duly visited. They then swept round by innumerable lanes, in which not twenty consecutive yards were either straight or level, to the domain of Lord Luxellian.

塔干湾——具有容易到达优点——被适当地访问了。然后他们绕过无数条小路，其中不连续二十码是直或水平，到 Luxellian 勋爵领地。

Changes in the liquidity function itself; due to a change in the news which causes revision of expectations, will often be discontinuous, and will, therefore, give rise to a corresponding discontinuity of change in the rate of interest.

流性功能本身变化；由于导致预期修正消息变化，往往是不连续，因此会引起利率变化相应不连续性。

There is some speculation that Celtic had some influence over the grammatical development of English, though, such as the use of the continuous tense (e.g. " is walking" rather than " walks" ), which is not used in other Germanic languages.

不过，有人猜测凯尔特语对英语语法发展有一些影响， 例如使用其他日耳曼语言中不使用连续时态（例如“is walking” 而不是“walks” ）。