remittent

英语

词源

源自拉丁語 remittent，remittō的现在分词。

形容词

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

忽轻忽重的，间歇的
- 1761, Hugh Smith, The Family Physician, London, p. 3, footnote,^[1]
  A remittent fever is when at certain periods the fever is more violent than at others, but the patient never intirely free from it.
- 1791, James Boswell, The Life of Samuel Johnson‎^[2], 第 1 卷, London: Charles Dilly，第 176 頁:
  Yet nine years elapsed before it [the dictionary] saw the light. His throes in bringing it forth had been severe and remittent, and at last we may almost conclude that the Caesarian operation was performed by the knife of Churchill, whose upbraiding satire, I dare say, made Johnson’s friends urge him to dispatch.
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- 1847, Charlotte Brontë, 章號 21, 出自 Jane Eyre‎^[3]:
  I bethought myself to go upstairs and see how the dying woman sped, who lay there almost unheeded: the very servants paid her but a remittent attention: the hired nurse, being little looked after, would slip out of the room whenever she could.
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- 1893, Lew Wallace, The Prince of India, or Why Constantinople Fell, New York: Harper, Volume 2, Book 6, Chapter 9, p. 404,^[4]
  The noise of the conflict, the shouting and roar of an uncounted multitude of men in the heat and fury of combat, not to more than mention the evidences of the conflict—arrows, bolts, and stones in overflight and falling in remittent showers—would have dispersed them in ordinary mood; but they were under protection—the Madonna was leading them—to be afraid was to deny her saving grace.
- 1895, Arthur Machen, “Adventure of the Missing Brother”, 出自 The Three Impostors‎^[5], London: John Lane，第 97 頁:
  The evening was a little chilly, and a fire of logs had been lighted in the study where we were, and the remittent flame and the glow on the walls reminded me of the old days.
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(罕用) （指症状）缓和的，减轻的
- 1875, Charlotte Riddell, 章號 14, 出自 The Uninhabited House‎^[6]:
  […] the long, long fever of life, which with him never knew a remittent moment, had robbed him of that which every man has a right to expect, some pleasure in the course of his existence.
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用法说明

intermittent指开始和停止反复，而remittent指过程持续不断，但强度忽轻忽重。

名词

remittent (不可數)

间歇性的发烧
- 1872, Henry Morton Stanley, 章號 15, 出自 How I Found Livingstone‎^[7], London: Sampson Low, Marston, Low, and Searle，第 598 頁:
  If you would have died from fever, you would have died at Ujiji when you had that severe attack of remittent.
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拉丁语

动词

remittent

remittō 的第三人稱複數將來時主動態直陳式