| 单词 | atsnatches |
| 释义 | > as lemmasat..snatches 4. by, or in, snatches, by hasty, unsustained efforts; hurriedly, by fits and starts; intermittently, interruptedly, not continuously. Also rarely at..snatches. ΘΚΠ the world > time > frequency > infrequency > [adverb] > intermittently by (formerly also at) startsc1422 startmeal?c1422 off and on1535 every otherwhile1542 by, or in, snatches1577 by fits and turns1583 by halves and fits1583 one time with another1591 fit-meal1593 by fits and spurts1605 planetarily?1609 scatteredly1612 startinglya1616 by snaps1631 intermittingly1654 from space to space1658 on and off1668 at (by) intervals1744 cessantly1746 by spells1788 fitfully1792 by fits and spasms1797 everylikea1800 intermittently1800 intermittedly1829 interjectionally1837 jerkily1839 at seasons1850 sporadically1852 parenthetically1860 spasmodically1877 snatchily1880 variously1892 (a) (b)1799 J. Robertson Gen. View Agric. Perth 169 The business..must often..be done in snatches, or not done at all.1850 ‘S. Yendys’ Roman vi. 66 Passing gales in snatches bore me Their evening talk.1897 M. Kingsley Trav. W. Afr. 287 I went in again and slept in snatches.(c)1692 Bp. G. Burnet Some Passages Life Rochester 138 He told me as his strength served him at several snatches.1577 B. Googe tr. C. Heresbach Foure Bks. Husbandry ii. f. 48 By snatches (as it were) and not throughly. 1625 in S. R. Gardiner Deb. House of Commons (1873) 101 What is it..to get or lose a towne by snatches? 1665 T. Manley tr. H. Grotius De Rebus Belgicis 507 Hitherto all that was done, was by snatches and intervals, as it were at a breathing. 1733 A. Pope Corr. 28 May (1956) III. 372 I have begun two or three letters to you by snatches, and been prevented from finishing them. 1754 S. Richardson Hist. Sir Charles Grandison VII. xxxviii. 182 When..she now-and-then could look up, which she did by snatches, as it were. 1837 J. G. Lockhart Mem. Life Scott (1839) IX. 59 The little that he read of new books..was done by snatches in the course of his meals. 1898 S. Baring-Gould Old Eng. Home xi. 250 He has to take his victuals and his rest by snatches. < as lemmas |
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