那是一场素质不齐的演出。
Abaxial leaf surface with a patchy discontinuous indumentum.
叶背面具一不规则的不连续的毛被。
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。
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。
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。
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。
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。
Airlines operating in former Soviet republics initially had a patchy safety record in the aftermath of the collapse of the Soviet Union, but this has improved in recent years.
由于前苏联解体，在前苏联运营的航空公司开始只零零碎碎地进行飞行安全记录，但这一情况近年来得到了改善。
Canada's economy is sensitive to global demand issues, so a weak Europe and a patchy US recovery mean that keeping rates on hold is the most expedient solution for Canada right now.
加拿大经济对全球需求反应灵敏，所以，疲软的欧洲及蹒跚的美国经济复苏意味着维持利率是加拿大目前最适宜的决定。
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。
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。
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。
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。
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。
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。
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。
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。
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。
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。
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