Discontinuous

(adj.) not continuing without interruption in time or space; 'discontinuous applause'; 'the landscape was a discontinuous mosaic of fields and forest areas'; 'he received a somewhat haphazard and discontinuous schooling' .

(adj.) of a function or curve; possessing one or more discontinuities .

整理:莱斯利

• It is equally fatal to an aim to permit capricious or discontinuous action in the name of spontaneous self-expression. 约翰·杜威. 民主与教育.
• Life had at first, it must be remembered, only a discontinuous repetition of consciousness, as the old died and the young were born. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.

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