fitful的词源

英文词源

fitful (adj.)

used once by Shakespeare ("Life's fitful fever," "Macbeth," 1605) in sense of "characterized by fits," from fit (n.2) + -ful. then Revived in Romantic poetry late 18c. with a sense of "shifting, changing." Related: Fitfully (1792); fitfulness.

中文词源

fitful：一阵阵的，间歇的

来自fit, 一阵痉挛。

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