stints

英 [stɪnts]

美 [stɪnts]

n.  从事某项工作(或活动)的时间
v.  节省; 吝惜
stint的第三人称单数和复数

柯林斯词典

• N-COUNT (在某地的)工作时间，活动时间
  Astintis a period of time which you spend doing a particular job or activity or working in a particular place.
  1. He is returning to this country after a five-year stint in Hong Kong.
     他在香港工作了5 年后即将回国。

双语例句

• After entering her interests into a computer programme at the school career service she was offered a variety of stints at conventional offices.
  在学校职业服务处，她在一个计算机项目中填入了自己的兴趣，随后接到了一些常规办公室工作的邀请。
• After stints carrying sacks on a construction site and selling lamb kebabs in the street, she ended up as a masseuse in a public bathhouse earning$ 60 a month.
  在一个建筑工地扛沙袋，在街上卖羊肉串，最后她落得在一家公共澡堂，当了一位女按摩师，每月赚60美元。
• He was controlling the middle part of the stints, and I had a bit of graining and stuff but Kimi was the strongest out of the three, I think.
  他控制着中段，我的轮胎有些粒化，但基米在我看来是我们三人之中最强的。
• In that time, my wife has had five stints at four organizations.
  期间，我太太在四个机构担任过五个职位。
• Many professional women would happily agree to check email even seven days a week and jump in, if necessary, for intense project stints& so long as over the course of a year, the time devoted to work is more limited.
  只要一年下来总工作时长有限度，许多职业女性甚至都乐意接受每周七天都查邮件，并且有必要的话也会迅速投入到紧张的项目中去。
• He also worked in the Canadian Finance Ministry for four years between stints at the Bank of Canada.
  在加拿大央行任职的间隙，他还在加拿大财政部有四年的工作经历。
• She's also done stints as a wrestler and has some experience acting.
  另外她做过一段时间的摔角选手，还有过当演员的经历。
• A well-researched biography that pulls many trends of Obama-ology under its umbrella but stints on fresh interpretations.
  这是一部研究深入的传记，涵盖了当下许多对奥巴马的研究成果，但又有全新的解读。
• After that and a couple of other food-related stints, she finally opened Family Recipe in September of 2011.
  之后她又短期做过几份与食品有关的工作，最终于2011年9月开设了家族秘伝餐馆。
• His solution was to become an intercontinental commuter, working six-week stints in India followed by two-week breaks back home in Glasgow.
  他的解决之道是成为一名洲际通勤者，每在印度工作6周之后，就飞回格拉斯哥家中休假两周。