〔まとまりのない〕disconnected;〔断続的な〕intermittent
- とぎれとぎれの話
- a disconnected story
- 泉から水がとぎれとぎれに流れていた
- The water was flowing out of the spring intermittently.
- 難民の列はとぎれとぎれに進んでいった
- The broken line of refugees moved forward.
- 少女はとぎれとぎれに母を見失った状況を説明した
- The little girl brokenly explained how she had lost sight of her mother.
- 子供のときに聞いた話をとぎれとぎれに語った
- She told snatches of a story she had heard as a child.