piecemeal
零散的,零星的,零零星星的,零碎的
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- : piece by piece; one piece at a time; gradually: to work piecemeal.
- : into pieces or fragments: to tear a letter piecemeal.
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- : done piecemeal.
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For now, ethics questions are being taken up in a piecemeal way.
In a recent essay in the journal Science, bioethicists Alessandro Blasimme and Effy Vayena from ETH Zurich in Switzerland said that the “piecemeal creation of public trust” was an important missing ingredient if we want more people to use these apps.
Should the Nationals go in that direction, it becomes much more likely that they piecemeal first base.
Together, these efforts are part of what ethics researchers at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology recently called the “piecemeal creation of public trust.”
They also reinforced their defense with piecemeal signings including veteran center Robin Lopez and forward Anthony Gill, who has spent the past three seasons overseas.
The American edition retains the piecemeal lightness of the original experiment.
Luskin makes the best argument he can, of course, but it is piecemeal and speculative.
While a grand bargain is extremely unlikely, Wyden intends to keep pushing for piecemeal reform.
After all, if he is looking for a party of deference, compromise, and piecemeal reform he need look no further.
No, he merely sympathized and proposed piecemeal reforms to the existing systems of exploitation and oppression.
Each sentence came as if torn from his unwilling tongue; short, jerky phrases, conceived in pain and delivered in agony.