时断时续
Traditional form:
時斷時續
Pinyin (reading):
shíduànshíxù
Definitions:
- stopping and starting
- intermittent
- sporadic
- on and off
Characters:
- 时 - time, season; period, era, age
- 断 - to sever, to cut off, to interrupt
- 时 - time, season; period, era, age
- 续 - continuous, serial
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