in（或by）fits and starts

in（或by）fits and starts with irregular bursts of activity 断断续续地, 间歇性地, 一阵阵地, 不时地： the machine tends to go forward in fits and starts. 这机器常常会时断时续地向前移动。

• in deed and not in name
• hardticket
• sport coat
• phonological
• blast pressure
• girlishness
• not by a fraction
• epituberculosis
• mele
• fairyland
• dandy roll
• selene
• inconclusible
• Venda
• open-end investment company
• canonizer
• polyanthuss
• magnoliidaes
• mythicize
• honest brokers
• devitrifiable
• stoicheiometrically
• aid the poors
• lithophytic
• mustard and cress
• autorotational
• once again
• Porphyridiaceae
• Ju
• globous
• bubal
• brocked
• down payment
• tegminal
• just
• woman to woman
• baric
• fill up a gap
• do for sb/sth
• Scottishly
• Bible-basher
• dares
• not in the slightest
• whip hand
• to the core
• cone of nulls
• rise to order
• tribbles
• arboviruses
• Tulsan
• utensil
• magnetoswitchboard exchange
• Phytomastigina
• safety lock
• eokas
• angle of obliquity
• blue-penciled
• dig one's heels in
• Rushmore, Mount
• Tauchnitz
• souffles
• gayeties
• eye socket
• epineurals
• suction gas
• General-Purpose Problem Saver
• tickings
• come to a sticky end
• be at the height of your success / fame / powers etc
• perception-reaction time
• forejudged
• bite off more than you can chew
• lentivirus
• in Fortune’s lap
• eternal cities
• bloodier
• loxodromic
• be in a bad way
• hot tip
• gatings
• obsidional
• Ugrians
• bandoliered
• be bad for
• neuropteras
• big ox
• rumbas
• Didymograptus
• machine timing
• deuteronomies
• amygdalic acid
• dibenzofurans
• emeer
• Lemnaceae
• nostologic
• cross-check
• juvenile hormone
• stay in
• COBE
• vesiculates