请教"more on than off"的意思

来源:百度知道 编辑:UC知道 时间:2024/05/31 11:03:59
请教"more on than off"的意思

原文为:

The government is also dragging its feet over the implementation of a hard-won accord reached two years ago to bring peace to Sudan's other shattered region, the south, where at least 2m people died in a civil war that persisted, more on than off, for decades, between the country's Arab rulers and its Christian and animist southerners.

应该是指苏丹南部的战事打打停停,持续了几十年,但一直在进行,已经造成200万人死亡。这种表达方法强调的是more后面的那个词。类似的表达还有:more often than not(= from time to time经常)等。

是指在南方的可能性大于不在南方。on the south.