dribs

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News of that discovery, at Fermilab, trickled out in dribs and drabs over several months in 1995.
1995年費米實驗室那項發(fā)現(xiàn)的消息幾個月內零星地泄露（透露）出一點點。
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.
林肯小時候大約上了一年學，但也是這兒上幾個月哪兒上幾個月這樣念的，之后他就是自學的。
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.
為了讓賭戲保持吸引力，機器回饋的獎金都是零零碎碎的：如果在一回千載難逢的機遇下一次性返還獎池內10萬美元的95%則太過令人沮喪，玩興全無。

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