happening only occasionally or at intervals that are not regular synonym intermittent偶爾發生的;間或出現的;陣發性的;斷斷續續的 sporadic fighting/gunfire/violence 零星的戰鬥/槍聲/暴力 sporadic outbreaks of the disease 那種疾病的散發
Extra ExamplesSporadic fighting continued through the next day. 零星的戰鬥持續到第二天。 Sporadic gunfire was reported each night. 報道稱每夜都有零星的炮火。 The findings are derived from sporadic and statistically unreliable surveys. 這些發現來自零星的、統計上不可靠的調查。 There are sporadic outbreaks of violence. 零星爆發了暴力事件。
Oxford Collocations DictionarySporadic is used with these nouns:- fighting
- gunfire
- outbreak
- …
Word Originlate 17th cent.: via medieval Latin from Greek sporadikos, from sporas, sporad- ‘scattered’; related to speirein ‘to sow’.