请输入您要查询的英文单词:

 

单词 by spurts
释义

> as lemmas

by spurts
3. by spurts:
a. In or with brief unsustained or spasmodic efforts; fitfully, spasmodically. †Also by fits and spurts, by fits and starts.
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
1605 G. Chapman Al Fooles ii. i [He] hath stolne, By his meere industry, and that by spurts, Such qualities as no wit else can match With plodding at perfection every houre.
1653 in F. P. Verney & M. M. Verney Mem. Verney Family 17th Cent. (1907) I. 523 I am like to bee 3 or 4 months in a yeare at Claydon & that only by fits & spurts.
1660 R. Coke Justice Vindicated 21 Forsooth it is by spurts, and not long enough to be accounted a settled Magistrate.
1882 Atlantic Monthly L. 753 He [a negro] can work hard for a while by spurts.
b. In intermittent jets. (Cf. spurt n.3 1.)
ΘΚΠ
the world > life > the body > organs of excretion > [adverb] > in spurts
by spurts1644
the world > matter > liquid > liquid flow > action or process of squirting or issuing in a jet > [adverb]
by spurts1644
a-spout1870
1644 K. Digby Two Treat. i. xxvi. 234 When a wound is made in the hart, bloud will gush out by spurtes att euery shooting of the hart.
1772 W. Buchan Domest. Med. (ed. 2) xlvii. 629 A sudden constriction takes place, and the urine is voided by spurts, and sometimes by drops only.
extracted from spurtn.1
<
as lemmas
随便看

 

英语词典包含1132095条英英释义在线翻译词条,基本涵盖了全部常用单词的英英翻译及用法,是英语学习的有利工具。

 

Copyright © 2004-2022 Newdu.com All Rights Reserved
更新时间:2024/12/24 20:47:28