On and off for about three years.

差不多。

He studied for his degree on and off for 75 years.

他学习75的时间。

Oh, about two years on and off.

有两。

So I was teaching on and off for several years.

我地教几书。

We just have a little trouble stringing them together.

只是这种时光总是的。

Sometimes there are intermittent thunderstorms all day in summer.

夏有时整有的暴风雨。

I've been living here on and off for nine years.

我在这里住九。

Consider these clauses: His sentences became broken.

说话变得。

So I think we're kind of we're sort of intermittently swapping.

所以我认为我们在地交换。

A stutter of either the temporal or physical realms.

一个在时间和物理上都的事物。

One may imagine her suffering on overhearing fragments of this sort of conversation.

可以想像听到这样的对话让她如何难受。

He did that on and off for the next four years.

接下来的四里，他地这样生活。

So, I've got on and off, but this has been my home base.

地工作，但这里一直是我的大本营。

Okay, why are you whispering only part of a sentence?

好的，你为什么小声说话，还的？

Her dead palms made squittering noises on the porcelain.

失去弹性的手掌在陶瓷上制造出的杂音。

It's about avoiding choppy, abrupt speech.

它的目的是避免、生硬的发音。

I have read desultorily the writings of the younger generation.

我也读一些我们这一时代的轻人的诗作。

You may even grieve on and off for years, experiencing grief differently each time.

你甚至可能会地悲伤多，每次的经历都不同。

So I've gone on and off but this has been my home base.

我地在这里工作，但这里一直是我的基地。

The past few years have been spent on and off anti-depressants.

过去的几里，他一直在地服用抗抑郁药物。