If your internet is spasmodic, it's irregular, stopping then suddenly working for a short time.

如果你的网络是的，那它就是不规律的，在一段时间内时好时坏。

Sometimes there are intermittent thunderstorms all day in summer.

夏天有时整天有的暴风雨。

An incessant buzzing of helicopters filled the twilight.

暮色里塞满了直升机的嗡嗡声。

Cue a desperate staccato burst of chomping.

于是插入一阵绝望的短促的响亮咀嚼声。

The result is an on-off, " bursty" pattern of data arrival.

结果就是数据以的" 阵发性" 模式到达。

A stutter of either the temporal or physical realms.

一在时间和物理上都的事物。

So low was an individual sound from these that a combination of hundreds only just emerged from silence, and the myriads of the whole declivity reached the woman's ear but as a shrivelled and intermittent recitative.

一朵石南花发出的声音，微乎其微，几百朵凑在一起，也只能在四下一片沉寂时听到，整山坡上无以数计的花朵送到那女人耳边的，也不过是枯萎无力、的吟诵之声。

We just have a little trouble stringing them together.

只是这种时光总是的。

Okay, why are you whispering only part of a sentence?

好的，你为什么小声说话，还的？

Her dead palms made squittering noises on the porcelain.

失去弹性的手掌在陶瓷上制造出的杂音。

One may imagine her suffering on overhearing fragments of this sort of conversation.

可以想像听到这样的对话让她如何难受。

So it's this broken sound of frogs croaking throughout the night.

于是，整夜晚都充斥着的呱呱声。

The upshot, the firm hopes, will be a cheaper reactor that is better suited to power grids that will increasingly be dominated by intermittent sources of energy such as wind turbines and solar panels.

该公司希望，其结果将是一种更便宜的反应堆，更适合电网，而电网将越来越多地由的能源(如风力涡轮机和太阳能电池板)主导。

" Well now, your teaching in this subject has been rather disrupted and fragmented, hasn't it? " stated Professor Umbridge, turning to face the class with her hands clasped neatly in front of her.

“同学们，你们这门课的教学一直是的，不成系统，是不是？”乌姆里奇教授转身面对着全班同学，两只手十指交叉，端端正正地放在胸前，然后说道。

A snore's quality can range from a gentle mew to a stuttering chainsaw — but all snores originate from the respiratory tract, which is lined with soft tissues.

打鼾的特征从温柔的猫叫声到的链锯声都有。但所有的鼾声都来自呼吸道，呼吸道内是软组织。

Sections recounted from Peter's perspective are written in a staccato stream of consciousness, as if grammar were breaking down under the weight of his depression: " And why. Not wanting. Not wanting not."

从彼得视角叙述的几部分用了的意识流写法，仿佛语法被他沉重的抑郁情绪压碎了：“而且为什么。不想。不想要，不要。”

Similarly, for the 30-50% young adults in on again-off again relationships, habitually breaking up and getting back together is associated with increased anxiety and depressive symptoms as well as poorer communication and commitment.

同样，对于 30%-50% 处于关系中的年轻人来说，习惯性分手和重归于好与焦虑和抑郁症状的增加以及沟通和承诺的减少有关。

According to the World Bank 2020 report on accelerating digital transformation in Zambia, only 44% of Zambians have internet access, and those who do usually face slow, intermittent and high costs.

根据世界银行2020年关于加快赞比亚数字化转型的报告，只有44%的赞比亚人可以上网，而那些确实这样做的人通常面临缓慢、和高昂的成本。

The promotion of Yasir al-Rumayyan to chairman makes the on-off ipo of the state oil company more likely; it could come as early as next year.

亚西尔·鲁迈扬(Yasir al-Rumayyan)晋升为董事长，使这家国有石油公司更有可能进行的上市事宜;上市最早可能于明年实现。

Nearly a quarter of an hour had passed, disturbed only by the broken breathing of the sufferer, when moving figures began to animate the line between heath and sky.

大概过去了一刻钟，只有病人的喘息打破了宁静，这时，在天空和荒原的界线之间开始有人影在走动。