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单词 hit-and-miss
释义
hit-and-miss
adjective
uk
/ˌhɪt.ənˈmɪs/us
/ˌhɪt.ənˈmɪs/
(alsohit-or-miss)
If something is hit-and-miss, you cannotdependon it to be of goodquality, ontime,accurate, etc.:
没准的，碰运气的
Thetrainsare often late, so getting toworkontimeis afairlyhit-and-missaffair.火车经常晚点，所以准时上班在很大程度上是件碰运气的事。
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(Definition ofhit-and-missfrom theCambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesofhit-and-miss

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Then you really started to hear it, although even then it was a bithit-and-miss.
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One might describe it as a fire brigade method; anad hocmethod; ahit-and-missmethod.
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We know that predict and provide is ahit-and-missapproach to housing.
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In the past, however, our policy has been toohit-and-miss.
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It appears to many local authorities that this is a veryhit-and-missmethod.
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Again, the levy is imposed under a number of different provisions and is somewhat of ahit-and-missaffair.
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The simple thesis that we are putting forward is that the incidence of aid on the present set-up is of too much ahit-and-misscharacter.
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Securing that funding has been a problem in the past, and has been something of ahit-and-missaffair.
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Does mining have to be such ahit-and-missaffair in this modern day and age?
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Respite care is very much ahit-and-missaffair, depending on the resources of the local authority.
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However, the public should not he exposed tohit-and-missarrangements.
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At the moment, it all seems veryhit-and-miss.
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The result could be ahit-and-missstatutory provision which left motorists in an uncertain position.
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For the officers already in the force, overtime is inevitably something of ahit-and-missaffair depending upon the force in which they serve.
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When one does not know what a word looks like, even looking a word up in a dictionary becomes a painfully slow,hit-and-missaffair.
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