1. A million people die from viral hepatitis every year, yet until now the public health response has been patchy and piecemeal, overwhelmed by the sheer scale of the problem. 每年有一百万人死于病毒性肝炎，可时至今日，公共卫生的应对活动却参差不齐，支离破碎，这与问题的严重程度不符。
2. If you can't find such an option for your operating system, you'll have to muddle through by installing packages piecemeal. 如果您找到这样一个适合您的操作系统的选项，您不得不逐个安装软件包。
3. The European Union was built by a process of piecemeal social engineering: indeed it is probably the most successful feat of social engineering in history. 欧盟的建立是通过一个零碎的社会工程完成的：事实上这可能是历史上最成功的社会工程创举。
4. It Can be handled in the same way that hard problems have been coped with before — piecemeal, pragmatically, by the dogged efforts of many people. 可以用以前对付困难问题的同样方法来加以处理——通过许多人不懈的努力、一点一点地、从实际效果出发地加以解决。
5. The European Union was brought into existence by what Karl Popper called "piecemeal social engineering". 欧盟是一种被Karl Popper称为“零碎社会工程”的产物。
