Surveys about attitudes to marriage are patchy and subject to a lot of reservations.
对婚姻态度的调查杂乱无章并受很多限制。
After a while there may be regrowth, though it can be patchy and does not occur in every case.
又过了一段时间可能会再生，但它可以片状和不会发生在每一个案件。
But such efforts will ultimately have a patchy and limited impact because they do not address the root causes of unmet health needs in girls and women.
但是，这些努力最终只会产生局部有限的影响，因为它们不能解决女童和妇女健康需求得不到满足的根本原因。
A million people die from viral hepatitis every year, yet until now the public health response has been patchy and piecemeal, overwhelmed by the sheer scale of the problem.
每年有一百万人死于病毒性肝炎，可时至今日，公共卫生的应对活动却参差不齐，支离破碎，这与问题的严重程度不符。
Its safety record, however, has been patchy and in 2007 the European Commission banned all Indonesia-based airlines from flying to the European Union after a series of accidents.
然而，其安全记录一直不乐观。在印尼航空公司发生一系列事故后，欧委会于2007年禁止所有印尼航空公司的客机飞往欧盟国家。
There are bans on this practice in operation around the world, but Fordham said the coverage is patchy and, in any case, enforcing the bans is difficult due to a lack of policing on the high seas.
世界各地都在禁止这种做法，但福特汉姆指出，禁令保护的范围不完整，而且无论如何，由于公海缺乏管辖，很难执行这项禁令。
那是一场素质不齐的演出。
The mobile phone industry plans to introduce a universal charger as part of a drive to improve its previously patchy environmental record.
手机制造业计划推出一款通用充电器，这将作为驱使自己改善先前的不环保记录的一部分。
America already has the world's most developed space monitoring system with a network of radars and telescopes. But its surveillance is patchy.
美国一直都拥有全球最发达的由雷达和望远镜网络组成的太空监测系统，但其侦察零散不全。
Moran is right, it is simple: and yet, for such a simple message, its cultural penetration has been patchy, fluctuating and disappointing.
墨兰是对的，这本来就很简单：然而，即便是这样一个简单的信息，它的文化穿透一直都不甚完整，摇摆不定，令人失望。
Still, the evidence for all this is patchy; and it does not suggest that immigrants are responsible for a particularly large part of the overall fertility rise, in France at least.
而且，所有这一切的证据都是零零星星的；也并不表示移民要为整体出生率增长负有特别大部分的责任，至少在法国不是这样。
Progress during the period has been spectacular, in spite of having to compete in a tough sector and a patchy track record in the past.
尽管该公司必须在一个艰难的行业进行竞争，且过去的记录也差强人意，但它在这段时期内取得了惊人的进步。
The idea of the brain as a muscle – "use it or lose it" – is far from established; the evidence for the benefits of "brain training" software, or doing the crossword daily, remains patchy.
大脑和肌肉一样“越用越灵活”的观点还远未被确证；也没有过硬的证据证明使用大脑训练软件或每天做填字游戏等活动的益处。
Those mighty winds pulled in a band of cloud and some patchy rain through the small hours, and into the first part of the morning.
那些强劲的大风卷起一层云彩，还有些零星的小雨下了好一会，一直持续到清晨。
HALF a year since the Arabs began to shake off their oppressive slumber, the picture is patchy.
半年来，自从阿拉伯人开始摆脱他们受压制的噩梦，情形有好有坏。
A survey commissioned by the ICRC to coincide with the 60th anniversary of the 1949 conventions found that knowledge of them was patchy, even in places that had recently seen conflict.
国际红十字委员会为迎接1949年日内瓦公约诞生60周年所进行的一项调查发现，即使是最近发生过冲突的地区，人们对这些规定也只是一知半解。
Indeed, even when someone's memory is patchy, he will still do his best to spin the information he has into a credible yarn.
确实，即使一个人对某件事的记忆并不完整，他仍然会尽其所能利用脑中的信息编造出一个令人信服的故事。
In Kipling's 1902 tale, an Ethiopian hunter paints spots on a leopard to help it blend into the "speckly, patchy-blatchy shadows" of the forest.
在吉卜林1902年出版的小说中，一位埃塞俄比亚猎人给豹的身上绘上斑点有利于它溶入星星点点的杂草从中。
For weeks data on the American economy had been patchy, indicating a spluttering recovery.
美国经济的几周数据不尽完美，显示出一个不均衡的回暖。
Recent months, moreover, have brought particular hardships: high inflation, a patchy monsoon, a slowing economy and vanishing jobs.
此外，严重的通货膨胀，突发的季风，缓慢的经济和减少的就业，使最近的几个月的形势尤其严峻。
At the town hall meeting Obama laid out the problems facing the US, from unemployment to patchy healthcare. "I am not a miracle worker," he said, adding that tough choices would have to be made.
在市政厅举行的会议上，奥巴马并不回避美国所面临的种种问题，从失业问题到支离破碎的医疗体系问题等。
Quite a lot of us derive our patchy understanding of globalisation from such well-publicised high jinks.
我们中有很多人对全球化的理解都比较零碎，而且这种理解都来自于这种大肆宣扬且喧闹的活动之中。
And unlike a programme streamed over 3g or broadcast via a dedicated mobile-TV network, shows stored on an iPod can be watched on an underground train or in regions with patchy network coverage.
而且由于电视节目被储存在iPod之中，不需要通过3G网络或者专用的移动电视网络来传输，因此可以在地铁中或者网络信号没有覆盖的区域内观赏。
Admittedly, none of these men is perfect: Mr Fischer, for instance, is too old under existing rules and had a patchy record as deputy head of the fund.
当然，以上人选也并非尽善尽美。比如费希尔先生在现有规则下年龄过大，作为IMF副手的履历也不光彩。
Network coverage in Katine is patchy but adequate, while charging phone batteries is a problem because the village is not connected to the national grid.
在Katine，虽然网络的覆盖率不尽如人意但还是足够的，最严峻的反而是充电问题，因为这个村庄和国家电网并没有连通。
So-called "personal, social and health education" was still patchy in many primary and secondary schools, Ofsted said in a review of inspection reports from 2001 to 2006.
Ofsted在2001年至2006年的监管回顾报告中称，很多小学和中学在所谓的“个人、社会和健康教育”方面做得都不够。
Admittedly, none of these men is perfect: Mr. Fischer, for instance, is too old under existing rules and had a patchy record as deputy head of the fund.
我们得承认这些人选都不完美：例如，在现行规定下，菲舍尔先生年事过高，而且在担任IMF第一副总裁期间表现时好时坏。
Admittedly, none of these men is perfect: Mr. Fischer, for instance, is too old under existing rules and had a patchy record as deputy head of the fund.
我们得承认这些人选都不完美：例如，在现行规定下，菲舍尔先生年事过高，而且在担任IMF第一副总裁期间表现时好时坏。
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