patchily

基本解释

As the African continent grew drier, forests gave way to grasslands, leaving food resources patchily distributed.
当时非洲大陆越来越乾燥，森林退缩，草原扩张，食物资源的分布因而散开，变成东一簇、西一簇的。
Interestingly, the hsp70 message is only patchily induced within the ischemic core but is markedly induced in neurons of the penumbra at 4 to 24 hours.
有趣的是，hsp70信息在缺血核心部位仅是被不规则地导入了，却在4到24小时内明显地被导入了半暗带的神经元。
China imposes no such burden on legislators;officials are subject only to patchily and secretively enforced requirements to report their incomes.
中国对人大代表并无此项要求，官员只是点缀式的秘密地被要求申报收入。
This suggests the dust inside them is "patchily distributed or otherwise difficult to observe based on the galaxies alone", he said.
这说明伽马射线暴出现区域的灰尘团分布很广泛，难以沿着所在星系的角度进行观测。”
EU expansion has made Europe more democratic and stable, reunited a once-divided continent and injected competitiveness into a block only patchily prepared for globalisation.
欧盟扩大让欧洲更加民主更加稳定，让一度分裂的大陆团结起来了，让没有准备好应对全球化的一个集团注入了竞争的活力。