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间歇地

资料来源 : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Fit \Fit\, n. [AS. fit strife, fight; of uncertain origin.
   [root] 77.]
   1. A stroke or blow. [Obs. or R.]

            Curse on that cross, quoth then the Sarazin, That
            keeps thy body from the bitter fit.   --Spenser.

   2. A sudden and violent attack of a disorder; a stroke of
      disease, as of epilepsy or apoplexy, which produces
      convulsions or unconsciousness; a convulsion; a paroxysm;
      hence, a period of exacerbation of a disease; in general,
      an attack of disease; as, a fit of sickness.

            And when the fit was on him, I did mark How he did
            shake.                                --Shak.

   3. A mood of any kind which masters or possesses one for a
      time; a temporary, absorbing affection; a paroxysm; as, a
      fit melancholy, of passion, or of laughter.

            All fits of pleasure we balanced by an equal degree
            of pain.                              --Swift.

            The English, however, were on this subject prone to
            fits of jealously.                    --Macaulay.

   4. A passing humor; a caprice; a sudden and unusual effort,
      activity, or motion, followed by relaxation or insction;
      an impulse and irregular action.

            The fits of the season.               --Shak.

   5. A darting point; a sudden emission. [R.]

            A tongue of light, a fit of flame.    --Coleridge.

   {By fits}, {By fits and starts}, by intervals of action and
      re?pose; impulsively and irregularly; intermittently.