英语词汇“at bits and starts”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

b. by bits: a little at a time; bit by bit: = by bits, gradually, piecemeal; also attrib. and quasi-n.; †at bits and starts: irregularly, intermittingly (cf. by fits (and starts) at fit n.² 4c); bits and bats (or bobs, pieces): fragments, oddments, odds and ends; small articles, personal belongings, bric-à-brac; (all) to bits: (reduced) to the condition of fragments; to go to bits: to go to pieces (see piece n. Phrases 2a).

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1596 Spenser Second Pt. Faerie Queene iv. ii. sig. B7^v, Workes of heauenly wits Are quite deuourd, and brought to nought by little bits !

1624 T. Gataker Discuss. Transubstant. 176 His grace is not consumed by bits.

1632 R. Sherwood Dict. in R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues (new ed.) By bitts, par morceaux.

1704 Swift Tale of Tub x. 185 He writ it in a Week at Bits and Starts.

1728 C. Cibber Vanbrugh's Provok'd Husband iii. i. 41 The Glasses [of the coach] are all to bits.

1849 J. C. Hare Par. Serm. ii. 189 To pick it up in this way bit by bit.

1859 E. FitzGerald tr. Rubáiyát Omar Khayyám lxxiii. 16 This sorry Scheme of Things entire, Would not we shatter it to bits.

1871 E. A. Freeman Hist. Ess. 1st Ser. ii. 45 This sort of bit-by-bit reform, going on for six hundred years.

1896 Yorks. Weekly Post 7 June Ah've sammed up a toathry oddments—bits an' bats mi mother ud call em.

1896 G. F. Northall Warwickshire Word-bk. 29 Gather up your bits-and-bobs, and let me lay the tea.

1905 G. B. Shaw Let. 31 July (1946) 21 We have withdrawn the play there because it went to bits.

1931 S. Jameson Richer Dust xv. 427 His right leg and his stomach had been full of what he called bits and pieces.

1933 W. S. Maugham Sheppey iii. p. 91 I'm not going to stand by and see you sneak his bits and pieces.

1936 G. Pollett Song for Sixpence iii. iv. 239 A shop of artistic ‘bits and pieces’ standing alongside the close.

1940 New Statesman 9 Nov. 466/1 There was still only the rubble, the bits and bats of broken furniture.

1955 ‘E. C. R. Lorac’ Ask Policeman ii. 25 She'd taken all her bits and pieces to uncle long ago.

1958 M. Allingham Hide my Eyes xv. 151 Give those chaps half an hour in here with their bits and bobs and there's no telling what they might be able to find.

1959 Listener 16 July 107/1 Is it all bits and pieces, a mosaic of images?

单词	at bits and starts
释义	> as lemmas at bits and starts b. by bits: a little at a time; bit by bit: = by bits, gradually, piecemeal; also attrib. and quasi-n.; †at bits and starts: irregularly, intermittingly (cf. by fits (and starts) at fit n.² 4c); bits and bats (or bobs, pieces): fragments, oddments, odds and ends; small articles, personal belongings, bric-à-brac; (all) to bits: (reduced) to the condition of fragments; to go to bits: to go to pieces (see piece n. Phrases 2a). ΚΠ 1596 Spenser Second Pt. Faerie Queene iv. ii. sig. B7^v, Workes of heauenly wits Are quite deuourd, and brought to nought by little bits ! View more context for this quotation 1624 T. Gataker Discuss. Transubstant. 176 His grace is not consumed by bits. 1632 R. Sherwood Dict. in R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues (new ed.) By bitts, par morceaux. 1704 Swift Tale of Tub x. 185 He writ it in a Week at Bits and Starts. 1728 C. Cibber Vanbrugh's Provok'd Husband iii. i. 41 The Glasses [of the coach] are all to bits. 1849 J. C. Hare Par. Serm. ii. 189 To pick it up in this way bit by bit. 1859 E. FitzGerald tr. Rubáiyát Omar Khayyám lxxiii. 16 This sorry Scheme of Things entire, Would not we shatter it to bits. 1871 E. A. Freeman Hist. Ess. 1st Ser. ii. 45 This sort of bit-by-bit reform, going on for six hundred years. 1896 Yorks. Weekly Post 7 June Ah've sammed up a toathry oddments—bits an' bats mi mother ud call em. 1896 G. F. Northall Warwickshire Word-bk. 29 Gather up your bits-and-bobs, and let me lay the tea. 1905 G. B. Shaw Let. 31 July (1946) 21 We have withdrawn the play there because it went to bits. 1931 S. Jameson Richer Dust xv. 427 His right leg and his stomach had been full of what he called bits and pieces. 1933 W. S. Maugham Sheppey iii. p. 91 I'm not going to stand by and see you sneak his bits and pieces. 1936 G. Pollett Song for Sixpence iii. iv. 239 A shop of artistic ‘bits and pieces’ standing alongside the close. 1940 New Statesman 9 Nov. 466/1 There was still only the rubble, the bits and bats of broken furniture. 1955 ‘E. C. R. Lorac’ Ask Policeman ii. 25 She'd taken all her bits and pieces to uncle long ago. 1958 M. Allingham Hide my Eyes xv. 151 Give those chaps half an hour in here with their bits and bobs and there's no telling what they might be able to find. 1959 Listener 16 July 107/1 Is it all bits and pieces, a mosaic of images? extracted from bitn.² < as lemmas
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