fitful

英语

源自fit (“抽搐；突然活跃”) +‎ -ful (从名词构成形容词的后缀，“充满...的”，“倾向于...的”，“有...性质的”)。^[1]

fitful (比較級 more fitful，最高級 most fitful)

(棄用) 抽搐的
- c. 1606 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Macbeth”, 出自 Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, 出版於 1623, →OCLC, [Act III, scene ii]，第 140 頁，第 2 列:
  Duncane is in his Graue: / After Lifes fitfull Feuer, he ſleepes well, / Treaſon ha's done his worſt: not Steele, not Poyſon, / Mallice domeſtique, forraine Leuie, nothing, / Can touch him further.
  （請為本引文添加中文翻譯）
(引申义) 断断续续的，间歇的，不规则的，一阵一阵的
近義詞：capricious、changeable、changing、erratic、shifting、spasmodic；亦參見Thesaurus:discontinuous

反義詞：unfitful；亦參見Thesaurus:continuous

His breathing was fitful.
他的呼吸不均匀。

Troubled by her unfinished work, she fell into a fitful sleep.
因为受没有完成的工作折磨，她断断续续地睡着了。
- Template:RQ:Scott Lady of the Lake
- Template:RQ:Byron Siege of Corinth
- Template:RQ:Melville Moby-Dick
- 2012年10月27日, “The economy: Don’t say ‘green shoots’: Britain emerges from its second recession in four years”, 出自 The Economist‎^[1], London: Economist Group, →ISSN, →OCLC，於29 October 2012歸檔自原頁面:
  So fitful has Britain’s economy been that any good news is understandably snatched at.
  （請為本引文添加中文翻譯）