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

如果你网络是，那它就是不规律，在一段时间内时好时坏。

Sometimes there are intermittent thunderstorms all day in summer.

夏天有时整天有暴风雨。

An incessant buzzing of helicopters filled the twilight.

暮色里塞满了直升机嗡嗡声。

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

结果就是数据以" 阵发性" 模式到达。

Harry caught snatches of conversation in strange languages from the inside of tents they passed.

哈利听见他们经过帐篷里传来谈话声，说都是些奇怪语言。

We just have a little trouble stringing them together.

只是这种时光是。

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

好，你为什么小声说话，还？

Her dead palms made squittering noises on the porcelain.

失去弹性手掌在陶瓷上制造出杂音。

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

可以想像听到这样对话让她如何难受。

Cue a desperate staccato burst of chomping.

于是插入一阵绝望响亮咀嚼声。

A stutter of either the temporal or physical realms.

一个在时间和物理上都事物。

It's about avoiding choppy, abrupt speech.

它目是避免、生硬发音。

The two men have been meeting on and off for weeks, but several sticking points remain.

两人已经接洽了几周时间，但是仍有一些问题胶着不下。

They were and the statue in the lake has been an on and off tradition ever since.

而他们也确实（连任了），湖中雕像之后也就成为一种传统。

In weeks of on-again, off-again demonstrations, the opposition's rallying cry has been constant but so far ineffective.

在数周示威活动中，反对派战斗口号不， 但迄今为止却没有效果。

They could hear the sounds of thousands of people moving around them, shouts and laughter, snatches of singing.

他们可以听见成百上千人在周围走动，听见喊叫声、欢笑声，还听见歌声。

Japan reported a fresh contamination case involving Moderna's COVID-19 vaccine, threatening to slow the country's sputtering inoculation campaign.

日本报告了一起涉及莫德纳公司新冠病毒疫苗新污染案件，这可能会减缓该国进行疫苗接种活动。

Right across the enormous plain stretched the straggling array, wagons and carts, men on horseback, and men on foot.

就在这片无边旷野上，双轮车、四轮车络绎不绝，有男人品在马上，有男人步行着，展开了一支行列。

Sometimes her sisters seemed far away and tiny and their incoherent voices came to her like the buzz of insects.

有时候，她两个妹妹好像离她很远，体积很小，她们声音也像虫子在嗡嗡叫似。

The war on the remaining remnants of the " force bills" lapsed into desultory skirmishing.

对“武力法案”剩余残余战争陷入了小规模冲突。