Their main complaint is the unreliable electricity supply.

他最为不满是（平壤）时断时电力供应。

Okay, I used to have a TV got reception like that.

好吧 我以前有台电视接收信号也是时断时。

His agonized moans had grown weaker and less frequent and finally ceased about ten minutes ago.

他极其痛苦呻吟声变得越来越弱，时断时，最后就在约十分钟前，终于停止了。

And this stimulus is flashing on and off.

这种刺激是时断时。

They are in an on-again, off-again relationship.

他处于一种时断时关系中。

The ladies also talked politics, though more fitfully.

也论政治，虽然时断时。

Shows are shorter than in the pre-streaming era, and work is intermittent.

节目比直播前时代更短，而且工作时断时。

We’ve been going out together for five years, off and on.

【off】我时断时恋爱有五年了。

And the eye-contact was choppy. He looked away, then at me, then away again.

眼神交流时断时。 他把目光移开， 然后看着我， 然后又移开。

He spoke in fits and starts.

【fit】他时断时说着话。

The house seemed strangely quiet after a fortnight's bustle, and their conversation was spasmodic and subdued.

经过两周喧嚣之后， 这所房子似乎出奇安静， 他话时断时、压抑。

Tchaikovsky’s enthusiastic music tumbles forward in fits and starts, even cutting short some musical phrases to capture her impatience.

柴可夫斯基热情音乐时断时，甚至剪短了一些乐句来表达她不耐烦。

For the next couple of centuries, the influence of England's church waxed and waned due to reform movements, invasions, and other events.

在接下来几个世纪里，由于改革运动、侵略和其他事件，英格兰教会影响时断时。

(2) Though there was never a time he wasn't painting and drawing, for Picasso sculpture was an on-and-off affair.

尽管毕加索从未停止过绘画和素描，但对于雕塑，他则是时断时进行。

He retired to rest early, but his sleep was fitful from the sense that Sue was so near at hand.

他早早就休息了，但感觉苏就在身边，他睡眠时断时。

" I want—" His voice starts and stops, and he's looking like he's resolving not to cringe at himself again.

“我想要——” 他声音时断时，看起来他决心不再对自己感到畏缩。

Nekhludoff read much, but only by fits and starts, and the want of an answer he ascribed to such superficial reading.

聂赫留朵夫读了很多书， 但只是时断时， 他把得不到答案归咎于这种肤浅阅读。

As an on-again, off-again vegetarian since the age of 14, I relied heavily on dairy for my protein and, of course, calcium.

作为一个时断时素食者，我从 14 岁起就开始严重依赖乳制品来获取蛋白质，当然还有钙。

" This is a fake channel." " A propaganda channel paid by others." " Why the spotty uploads? " Maybe because it's- It's just one person.

“这是一个假频道。” “一个由他人付费宣传渠道。” “为什么上传时断时？”也许是因为——这只是一个人。

Is there something  you might be trying to repair in your past by throwing yourself again and again at the feet  of a distracted and intermittent person?

你是否试图通过一而再、再而三投向一个分心且时断时人，来弥补你过去某些缺憾？