1. The book is written in an episodic format.
    这本书是以一种松散的形式写成的。

1. 片段式：所发现的各类媒介框架,包括可信度、政治角力、表演性、性骚扰及公正性等,而这些框架在事件发展各时期的比重不尽相同. 后者如强调个别案例境况之片段式(episodic)框架与提供议题社会情境的主题式(thematic)框架(Iyengar, 1991).

2. 插话式的：drunken driving 酒后开车 | episodic 插话式的 | largamente 意>adv.[音]宽大地,广阔地,宽广地

3. 幕的：episodic subsidence 阶段性沉降 | episodic 幕的 | epistilbite 柱沸石

1. 不定期发生的;偶尔发生的
    Something that is episodic occurs at irregular and infrequent intervals.

    e.g. ...episodic attacks of fever.
           不定期的发烧

2. （写作或电影）有许多片段的，不连贯的
    An episodic piece of writing or film consists of a series of events, which often seem not to be connected.

    e.g. ...an episodic narrative of unrelated characters connected only by time and place.
           仅靠时间和地点把那些不相关的角色联系在一起的片段式叙述

1. limited in duration to a single episode

    e.g. an account concerned primarily with episodic events such as the succession of rulers

2. occurring or appearing at usually irregular intervals

    e.g. episodic in his affections
           occasional headaches

    Synonym: occasional

3. of writing or narration
    divided into or composed of episodes

    e.g. the book is episodic and the incidents don''t always hang together