dribs

常见例句

News of that discovery, at Fermilab, trickled out in dribs and drabs over several months in 1995.
1995年费米实验室那项发现的消息几个月内零星地泄露（透露）出一点点。
After about a year of schooling as a boy—and that spread out in dribs and drabs of three months here and four months there—Lincoln taught himself.
林肯小时候大约上了一年学，但也是这儿上几个月哪儿上几个月这样念的，之后他就是自学的。
To keep the game interesting, most of it is paid out in dribs and drabs: a machine that returned $95,000 of every $100,000 in one huge jackpot once in a blue moon would be too disheartening to play.
为了让赌戏保持吸引力，机器回馈的奖金都是零零碎碎的：如果在一回千载难逢的机遇下一次性返还奖池内10万美元的95%则太过令人沮丧，玩兴全无。

Another is the way that bad news comes to light in dribs and drabs, rather than in one cathartic revelation.
ECONOMIST: A liquidity squeeze
Holders of mutual funds lose out from such activities in dribs and drabs, since they are not able to take advantage of these price discrepancies.
ECONOMIST: Everyone’s making money except the customers The
Many believe there is a vast pool of dodgy offshore money owned by Indians, which is brought home in dribs and drabs.
ECONOMIST: Foreign investment in India: They just keep on keeping on The