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sporadic adj.不定时发生的；零星的 (1) 摘要原发性肝脏平滑肌肉瘤非常少见，因此只有一些零星的病例报告。(2) 她仅有的收入来自于零星的租赁交易，这令她不得不经常动用退休储蓄。 A specialized use of sporadic is to describe a disease that appears only occasionally in random cases, and is therefore not an epidemic. English borrowed the word sporadic from Greek sporadikós "scattered." A very near synonym is intermittent.

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英 [spə'rædɪk] 美 [spə'rædɪk] (1) Primary hepatic leiomyosarcoma is very rare with only sporadic cases reported.(2) Her only income came from sporadic leasing deals, forcing her to dip repeatedly into retirement savings. Sporadic is an adjective that you can use to refer to something that happens or appears often, but not constantly or regularly. The mailman comes every day but the plumber visits are sporadic––he comes as needed. 1[ADJ-GRADED 能被表示程度的副词或介词词组修饰的形容词]间断发生的；零星的 Sporadic occurrences of something happen at irregular intervals. ...a year of sporadic fighting over northern France...法国北部发生零星战斗的一年The sound of sporadic shooting could still be heard.仍能听见零星的枪声。sporadicallyThe distant thunder from the coast continued sporadically...远处海岸边不时传来雷声隆隆。He attends school sporadically.他上学时断时续。

英语单词	sporadic
英美音标	英 [spə'rædɪk] 美 [spə'rædɪk]
中文释义	adj.不定时发生的；零星的
英语例句	(1) Primary hepatic leiomyosarcoma is very rare with only sporadic cases reported. (2) Her only income came from sporadic leasing deals, forcing her to dip repeatedly into retirement savings.
中文例句	(1) 摘要原发性肝脏平滑肌肉瘤非常少见，因此只有一些零星的病例报告。 (2) 她仅有的收入来自于零星的租赁交易，这令她不得不经常动用退休储蓄。
vocabulary简明	Sporadic is an adjective that you can use to refer to something that happens or appears often, but not constantly or regularly. The mailman comes every day but the plumber visits are sporadic––he comes as needed.
vocabulary扩展	A specialized use of sporadic is to describe a disease that appears only occasionally in random cases, and is therefore not an epidemic. English borrowed the word sporadic from Greek sporadikós "scattered." A very near synonym is intermittent.
柯林斯解释	1 [ADJ-GRADED 能被表示程度的副词或介词词组修饰的形容词]间断发生的；零星的 Sporadic occurrences of something happen at irregular intervals. ...a year of sporadic fighting over northern France... 法国北部发生零星战斗的一年 The sound of sporadic shooting could still be heard. 仍能听见零星的枪声。 sporadically The distant thunder from the coast continued sporadically... 远处海岸边不时传来雷声隆隆。 He attends school sporadically. 他上学时断时续。

Sporadic Appears 英 Spə'Rædɪk] 美 Spə'Rædɪk Adj.不定时发生的；零星的 Primary Hepatic