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Перевод: fitful

[прилагательное]
судорожный; порывистый; прерывистый; перемежающийся

Тезаурус:

1. Quinn and the President's son spent a fitful night in the cellar.
2. The wind was fitful, but very strong, and Susan's umbrella soon blew inside out.
3. When the weather has entered a relatively rain free period, but when cloud cover is moderately dense and uniform, but not too low - when the prevailing light is evenly spread over the landscape, with no parts over bright or too deep in shadow - when the wind is still or gently fitful, a magic prevails everywhere upon the Wolds, and it comes from within the chalk.
4. Development there has been described by Lehmann as "modernisation with fitful growth", because the expansion of the state apparatus has meant modernisation in terms of growing bureaucracy and an increase in formal, at the expense of clientelist and personal, relationships at work but at the same time agricultural productivity has been erratic (Lehmann 1982).
5. Computer-assisted learning, although it has made only some fitful progress in the past twenty years, will also feature prominently in education.
6. The trains time her life, crashing through fitful dreams at night, slackening off in the early hours.
7. As an early domestic melodrama it is not without interest, but this sermonising evening is, frankly, a slog with only fitful rewards along the way.
8. While the Troop Commander attended the "O" Group in Regimental Headquarters, which was ensconced in yet another fly's paradise of a farmyard some twenty-five kilometres away, the remainder of the troop were roused from their fitful dozing in the late afternoon sunshine to prepare their main compo meal of the day, check equipment and attend to the usual rituals of washing, shaving and boot and weapon cleaning.
9. Thinking about it and its possible implications, he drifted into a fitful doze, a gentle smile on his face.
10. Sleep is fitful.
11. A night of restless tossing, snatchings of brief seasons of sleep, and fitful wakings, preceded the morning of my departure for the West Coast.
12. Standing at the bar on this rainy Friday night in Warsaw is a tall, thin, dark-haired and rather pretty woman of about thirty, who catches my glance as Leszek Kurowski and I enter and, with a darting, fitful gesture, invites me to approach.
13. Pat Thane traces the fitful impact of feminist ideas and personalities in Britain, and Giles Radice tags along with Edward Pearce's election ride