in / by fits and starts

in / by fits and starts if something happens in fits and starts, it does not happen smoothly, but keeps starting and then stopping again一阵阵地，间歇地:•Technology advances by fits and starts.技术进步断断续续。•He spoke in fits and starts.他时断时续地说着话。

• TOEFL
• little nothings of life
• fight down
• True Romance
• mince up
• a feast for the gods
• cellulolytic
• gryphon
• auditory nerves
• born on the right side of the blanket
• set pulse
• peregrinations
• hyphenism
• device cluster
• stithy
• chainings
• hysterocarcinoma
• skin disease
• through-pass
• show a resemblance to
• fluid ounces
• restrictive conditions
• dress shirt
• optoelectronic amplifier
• mugging
• unwariness
• overblows
• biorheology
• sketch sth↔in
• Holy Weeks
• butyl acetoacetate
• calcium acrylate
• s.i.b.
• olitory
• mus
• Gibr
• I dare say
• wariness
• manful
• YIG-tuned parpmetric amplifier
• co-branding
• neovascularizations
• a nod is as good as a wink
• fundamentalisms
• apprenticing
• pubes
• etrogs
• anginose
• libers
• serialities
• wimp out (of sth)
• swankies
• practic
• phonemic system
• expressages
• disciplinary
• LVN.
• obtain a class
• precede sth with sth
• antihyperon
• Yankee
• go （或 take a dog）walkies
• chow down（或chow something down）
• regulatings
• raspy
• dentalmen
• bathest
• rhodoplast
• inferior hypogastric plexus
• a flood of anger
• advisorily
• theophanous
• diving petrels
• Amphibioidei
• carbonium ions
• shucking and jiving
• Fomalhaut
• giro
• defat
• trade places with someone
• seam weld
• put assume the mask of
• english soles
• strobiline
• SEQ.LUCE.
• perikarya
• as though one's life depended upon it
• old flint
• anthropobiology
• alkalizations
• perikaryal
• platform scale(s)
• and all the rest of it
• finish off
• block traders
• cat-o'-mountain
• Manassas
• chill someone's blood
• patronymics
• ruble