他打量着吧台那边零星的几个顾客。He surveyed the handful of custo-mers at the bar.除了一些零星的抵抗外，部队已控制了城市。The army controls the city apart from a few pockets of resistance.除了一些零星的情况外，我什么也不知道。I knew nothing beyond a few random facts....

“零星的”的英语可以翻译为：fragmentary，odd，scattered，sporadic ...