bad times, adverse fate
时断时续 stopping and starting; on and off; intermittent; sporadic 时乖命蹇 bad times, adverse fate (idiom) 时好时坏 sometimes good, sometimes bad ..
时乖命蹇,汉语成语,拼音是shí guāi mìng jiǎn,意思是指时运不好,命运不佳。出自《墙头马上》。