Many Romani children attend school patchily if at all.

大多数罗姆儿童都不上学，要说有也很少。

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One of Libya’s two mobile-phone networks is defunct and the other works only patchily.

利比亚有两家移动电话网络提供商，其中一家已经完全毁坏，另一家也几近瘫痪。

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Firms gathered data slowly and patchily, through mechanisms not built for the purpose.

企业从非专属渠道缓慢而零散的收集数据。

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The region is on the mend, albeit slowly and patchily, with South Korea and Thailand leading the way.

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By inviting all scholars to peruse its archives (something it has done only patchily), Turkey could disarm its critics.

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On the human-rights front, a string of new horrors has blotted a record that had been improving, albeit patchily.

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