drabs

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美

(drab 的复数) a. 土褐色的, 单调的
drab的复数

习惯用语

n.

in dribs and drabs
• 少量；一点一滴；零零星星
  in small amounts or numbers over a period of time
• She paid me in dribs and drabs, not all at once.
  她一点一点地付给我钱，而不是一次付清。

双语例句

• The hostages have been released in dribs and drabs.
  人质被几个几个地释放了。
• The guests came in dribs and drabs.
  客人来得哩哩啦啦的。
• Through massif, feet high and low; Experience ups and downs, and also searching; Get busy life, more or less, lose dribs and drabs, important is open happy heart!
  走过山山水水，脚下高高低低；经历风风雨雨，还要寻寻觅觅；生活忙忙碌碌，获得多多少少，失去点点滴滴，重要的是开开心心！
• It remains to be seen whether olive growers will be happy that the color previously associated with their product is now called drab; or whether drabs or the producers of drab will mount a protest.
  橄榄种植者是否会对以前与他们的产品相关联的颜色现在被成为土绿色感到满意，或者斜纹布的生产商是否会提出抗议，还需拭目以待。
• These achievements are my intervention to those weenie experiences of life. I mobilize all my energy to touch those dribs and drabs.
  这些结果是我对生活细微体验的干预，我调动自身所有的能量去触碰那些微小的点滴。
• He's paying me back in dribs and drabs.
  他零零星星地还钱给我。
• She had concocted the whole story from dribs and drabs of gossip picked up at back doors and in the shops.
  她根据人们家里讲的和商店听来的闲言碎语拼凑成了这个故事。
• Taxes were collected in dribs and drabs.
  税是一点一滴收集起来的。
• People arrived at the party in-dribs and drabs.
  人们三三两两地来到了晚会上。
• The food came in dribs and drabs.
  食物零星地陆续送来。