| 单词 | patchily |
| 例句 | Sunlight slid patchily across his walking shoulders, glinting along the pole like yellow ants. The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z You could find those qualities higher up in the company, too, if more patchily. Critic’s Notebook: Taking Stock of City Ballet’s Secret Weapon 2014-03-03T22:56:00Z As a pop-reggae album it's patchily OK; as an addition to the canon of righteous Rastafarian spiritual music, it's profoundly unconvincing and a bit insulting. Snoop Lion: Reincarnated – review 2013-04-18T14:29:01Z Similarly, Ents24 patchily collates together info on stage shows across the country, but without either great functionality or style. Nosheen Iqbal 2010-08-04T08:55:00Z Trouble is, Reacher's stature is a fair percentage of his personality; a fact only patchily transferred to the film. Jack Reacher – review 2012-12-15T00:00:05Z Light shone patchily on the surface, turning the water chemical green, bronze, aquamarine. Wilderness by Sarah Hall 2013-03-18T13:22:56Z A lot of Act Up’s history is only patchily recorded, not least for the awful reason that many activists have since died. Giant condoms and buckets of fake blood: the true story of Aids activists Act Up 2018-04-06T04:00:00Z Artificial Intelligence are patchily imaginative but undone by excessive moralism. Review: Spielberg's 'BFG' Honors Roald Dahl's Spirit 2016-05-16T04:00:00Z His efforts to develop an acting and/or TV career have been – Conchords apart – only patchily successful. Arj Barker: Landing of the Conchord 2010-08-10T20:29:00Z The force of these images resides in their deft command of bodies in space balanced by saturated colors painted patchily on bare canvas. Stephen Pace, Painter and Abstract Expressionist, Is Dead at 91 2010-10-07T06:21:00Z In the old days, I used to follow the red blotches moving patchily northwards as the manufacturing cities declared in the small hours. Election memories 2010-04-09T23:07:00Z Equally unromantic of face is Paul Matthews, a biology professor played by a dowded-down Nicolas Cage in the patchily entertaining dark comedy “Dream Scenario.” Review: Nicolas Cage is pure nightmare fuel in 'Dream Scenario.' That's (kind of) a good thing 2023-11-09T05:00:00Z It once again shone a spotlight on patchily regulated non-bank financial intermediaries such as investment funds, insurers and pension schemes, now totalling over $200 trillion globally. Britain to go it alone for now on reining in 'shadow banking' 2022-11-02T04:00:00Z Proponents say it is necessary because the government’s emergency support is patchily distributed and insufficient. All eyes on Chile´s Pinera as congress approves a fresh pensions drawdown 2021-04-23T04:00:00Z Others also point out that cryptocurrency trading is highly opaque compared to traditional assets and patchily regulated, making comprehensive data on the emerging sector rare. How American investors are gobbling up booming bitcoin 2020-12-03T05:00:00Z As a science, fire was studied patchily, in forestry programs, and only in order to control it. Op-Ed: Pandemics spread like wildfire, and fire is a contagion too 2020-08-24T04:00:00Z “We need to start thinking about conserving animals and spaces that are rich producers of essential fatty acids,” Arts notes, “because of the fact that they are so patchily distributed, and they’re under tremendous threat.” Slimy Mudflat Biofilms Feed Migratory Birds—and Could Be Threatened 2020-06-17T04:00:00Z A patchily intriguing set from the next decade, flagging the ever-changing Miles’ migration from free-swinging jazz to rock. Miles Davis's 20 greatest albums – ranked! 2019-08-01T04:00:00Z For a story ostensibly designed as a tribute to the Beatles’ canon, it’s strange how patchily the songs are presented. Review: 'Yesterday' imagines a world without the Beatles — and doesn't make you want to visit 2019-06-26T04:00:00Z Each of these self-settlers, as they are known, travelled back across a patchily enforced exclusion zone boundary and reclaimed their homes in 1986. Chernobyl: The end of a three-decade experiment 2019-02-14T05:00:00Z Our farm, like much of the countryside hereabouts, is patchily ringed by wire fences threaded with strands of barbed wire. Wattle fences: Weaving branches takes time, yields rewards 2018-08-14T04:00:00Z A patchily colored husk was all that existed of the new spaceship. Virgin Galactic’s Rocket Man 2018-08-13T04:00:00Z The emerging norm will then be enforced patchily, if at all. This year has seen an explosion of rage about sexual harassment 2017-12-19T05:00:00Z Though selectively and patchily, the council has promoted justice around the world. The UN Human Rights Council will be weaker if America leaves 2017-06-01T04:00:00Z But the rule is routinely violated, and the country’s complex regulatory regime – sprawling across national laws, local regulations and a myriad of often contradictory industry-specific guidelines – is at best patchily enforced. The city that exploded: how China's growth led to the Tianjin disaster 2017-05-23T04:00:00Z Despite much progress India remains poor, patchily administered and reliant on shaky infrastructure. India’s shortage of banknotes spurs protests 2016-11-17T05:00:00Z A patchily implemented August 2015 peace deal saw Machar return to the capital earlier this year, but fresh fighting between his forces and government soldiers loyal to Kiir erupted in July. UN peacekeepers refused to help as South Sudan rebels raped aid workers – report 2016-10-05T04:00:00Z See Now Buy Now is still only patchily adopted as a business model, but it is hugely influential as a philosophy. From Gigi Hadid to emoji fashion – New York fashion week is looking to the future 2016-09-13T04:00:00Z And not too many points go by before a smile broadens across his still impishly boyish, and patchily bearded, face. The Joyful Approach of Nicolas Mahut, Best Known for a Loss 2016-09-07T04:00:00Z And so it did for 24 hours, patchily for a few days longer. Attempts to elevate the Brexit debate following MP's death begin to fray 2016-06-20T04:00:00Z Radiation deposited by fallout from Chernobyl has been measured as far away as Norway in reindeer, but it is patchily spread in the exclusion zone. Animals Rule Chernobyl 30 Years After Nuclear Disaster 2016-04-18T04:00:00Z Left to themselves, old-growth and wilderness pines would produce the right conditions only patchily. Truffle trackers: how dogs and humans help ecology and gastronomy in Oregon 2016-01-10T05:00:00Z Prohibition was patchily enforced, and certain groups were more likely to find themselves tossed into the rough patches: “Mexicans, poor European immigrants, African-Americans, poor whites in the South.” Prohibition and the Penal State 2015-12-21T05:00:00Z But the de-Leninisation job was done thoroughly in the west of the country, only patchily in central regions, and in the east hardly at all. Ukraine commits statue-cide 2014-02-24T12:32:06Z However, the provision, due to revert to its original form in the proposed changes, was only patchily applied from 1971. Constitutional tweaks may empower Mubarak-era politicians in Egypt 2013-08-24T11:52:56Z Critics say the law is patchily enforced as police seek to avoid confrontations in poor neighborhoods with high Muslim populations. France stands by veil ban after riots 2013-07-22T09:03:43Z In a wider sense this is what England have come to expect, a level of part-time brilliance that has to date added up to a fine if patchily constructed set of Test statistics. Stuart Broad's part-time brilliance leaves England hoping for more 2013-05-19T18:37:55Z Shell’s Alaska science team lead, Michael Macrander, said that the corals are patchily distributed in some areas, so the Greenpeace expedition might have encountered a higher concentration than normal. Greenpeace finds deep-sea corals on Shell’s Arctic drill site 2012-07-27T22:52:11Z The United States and its allies want to avoid a replay of what happened when Afghanistan was governed, patchily, by the Taliban and al Qaeda was able to establish elaborate, semi-permanent training camps. Exclusive: Concern grows over militant activity in Libya 2011-09-29T22:25:24Z Firms gathered data slowly and patchily, through mechanisms not built for the purpose. A market for social-media data: Sipping from the fire hose 2011-09-29T09:33:12Z Flamingos are found patchily throughout the world, wherever there are shallow salt pans, brackish waters or lagoons to exploit. Basics: Flamingos, Up Close and Personal 2011-08-22T19:06:18Z The cells were also patchily distributed in the sediment, just as modern bacteria tend to congregate near sources of food, the researchers report today in Nature Geoscience. World's Oldest Fossils Found in Ancient Australian Beach 2011-08-21T18:00:00Z A sense of futile anger racked her as she looked; the powder was streaked on her face; the rouge standing out patchily; she looked plain, almost old. The Oyster 2011-02-10T03:00:49.300Z Nice try, minister, but the British passion for investing in bricks and mortar long predates Brown's chancellorship and is still going on in many parts of the country, though very patchily. Want to end house-price rollercoaster? Hit first homes with capital gains tax 2011-01-03T15:06:57Z Now 18 African countries have banned it, although laws are patchily observed. Female genital cutting: Ending a brutal practice 2010-06-10T10:39:00Z Her patchily grey hair is crisp; she still has a few pretty gestures. A Poor Man's House The hair, curly, matted all over his body, patchily rubbed away. Someone Comes to Town, Someone Leaves Town He wandered in pursuit of the Marshal and caught up with him, but the prose in which he wished to embody the man remained listless and lifeless, and he could think only patchily. Là-bas Beyond rose hills—hill upon hill lit patchily by the sun, so that their contours were a mingling of brilliant purple heather, red-brown bracken, and indigo shadow. The Best British Short Stories of 1922 Beads of perspiration stood thick on his patchily coloured forehead; with lips stiffening, and intently staring eyes, he waited for what the released prisoner would say. Fraternity When I had gained the top, I found grass growing patchily from six inches to two feet high; and small, scrubby trees from four to ten feet tall, spaced regularly, but very scattered. The Land of Footprints |
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