The watery sunshine rested on the walls in blurred and desultory gleam

淡淡的阳光象水一样洒在墙上，斑斑驳驳的。

The German assaulted on Russia also momentarily disrupted the desultory JapaneseAmerican talks

德国突袭俄国，也暂时打断当时断断续续进行的日、美谈判。

Desultory attempts to help

毫无计划的随意帮助.

She read much of a desultory sort of literature and as a modern linguist had really made great proficiency

她阅读了不少乱七八糟的作品，作为一个现代语言学家，她当真是非常熟练的。

She received him in a little parlor: a small unspeckled bower, ornamented with a desultory foliage of tissue paper

她在一间小小的客厅里接待他。小小的房间一尘不染，室内装饰着用皱纸做成的飘逸的枝叶。

The careful study of a few books is better than the desultory reading of many

精心研究几部书胜过随意地读许多书。

The conversation, at first desultory and scattered, allowed Ione and Glaucus to carry on those sweet whispers

开头，大家随意闲聊，谈话是分散进行的，这就使伊俄涅和格劳科斯能够卿卿我我轻声谈个不停。

desultory reading

乱读.

a desultory conversation

漫谈.

If she continues to work in that desultory way，she will never finish anything.

如果她还是那样杂乱无章地工作，她将永远不会有任何成就.

He tactfully stayed out of all but the most desultory conversations with the members

他机灵地避免和会员进行任何谈话，除非随便闲聊几问。

He was a desultory tentative student of something and everything might only have been predicted of him

他只是一个轻尝浅试、旁收杂览、样样通、样样松的学生罢了。

Wilson and Gallagher play a desultory game of poker

威尔逊和加拉格尔心不在焉地打着扑克。

Our planning proceeded in a desultory fashion

我们的计划工作是以一种杂乱无章的方式进行的。

That he was a desultory tentative student of something and everything might only have been predicated of him

我们只可预言一下，说他只是一个轻尝浅试、旁收杂览、样样通，样样松的学生罢了。

The next several weeks of desultory battle were a holding action

以后几个星期的零星战斗不过是应付局面的行动而已。

Judith now entered into a desultory discourse with Deerslayer

尤蒂丝开始和打鹿将东拉西扯地闲聊起来。

His conduct during these first weeks had been desultory beyond description

在开始的几个礼拜里，他的行为散漫得没法形容。

Back in the 1920’s he said, in some desultory interview, that two discoveries might destroy mankind: automatic energy and universal thought-reading

早在20年代,他在一次漫谈式采访中就说过:有两个发现可能会毁灭人类,一个是原子能,另一个是万能读心术。

The desultory discussion merely reaffirmed old perplexities

这次讨论完全不着边际，仅仅重申了过去那些纠缠不清的老问题。

The firing was desultory

这种射击是零零碎碎的。

After returning from rounding up the cattle on that morning in November, Drummond conducted a desultory few hours of homeschooling.

11月的那个早上，蕾外出放牧牛群归来后，便开始断断续续地花上几个小时进行家庭教育。

Desultory suggests a shifting about from one thing to another that reflects a lack of method:

Desultory暗指从一件东西移到另一件，反映缺少方法：

That he was a desultory tentative student of something and everything might only have been predicted of him.

从他身上大概可以猜测出，他是一个对什么事情都想广泛学习的学生。

But what was, only a decade ago, a desultory campaign against the disease now looks like a determined assault.

但是就在10年前，应对该疾病所采取的行动还是散乱的，如今似乎变成了坚定的战斗。

The two Palestinian factions, bitter rivals for years, have made various desultory efforts to settle their differences.

这两大多年对立的巴勒斯坦组织，为解决双方的分歧作出了断断续续的各种努力。

desultory raid

n.分散袭击,单机袭击