stints

英 [stɪnts]

美 [stɪnts]

n.  从事某项工作(或活动)的时间
v.  节省; 吝惜
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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

• He has had various stints in the country, first teaching English, then as a postgraduate student, interpreter and the regional manager for a US car parking firm.
  在捷克，他干过各种行当，先是教英语，然后念研究生、当口译，也做过一家美国泊车公司的地区经理。
• He has since worked in both private and public sectors, including stints in the Italian Senate and as one of the European Commission's group of company-law experts.
  他在私有和国有单位都谋过事，其中包括在意大利参议院干过一段时间，当过欧盟委员会公司法律处专家。
• In February, Dunst checked in to the center, not long after Lindsay Lohan and Eva Mendes had stints there.
  邓斯特在二月在这家治疗中心登记，在那不久前，琳赛罗涵和伊娃·门德斯都曾在这家治疗中心接受勒戒。
• He can fly in and fly out17 times a year for two-week stints, like I do, and he'd be silly not to.
  他可以像我一样每年来回17次，每次工作两周。如果他不干，那他就是傻瓜。
• The eight actors from the videos are doing four-hour stints in the gallery, killing time on the various sets.
  影像中的的8位演员在展览馆中正进行四小时的轮班工作，在不同的场景中消磨时光。
• 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。
• If a Service-to-Self soul, they may view the life they are losing as one of their better stints, and fear being placed into a crippled body, or one enslaved by others in a future incarnation.
  如果一个灵魂是服务自我的，他可能会将正逝去的生命看作是更好的份额，并且害怕被放在残疾的躯体中，或者是在未来的化身中受到奴役。
• Her life as an artist started in her 30s, after unhappy early stints in industry and teaching.
  早年在工业和教育领域多次碰壁后，她在30多岁时开始了她的艺术生涯。
• 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 subsequent album," oh, my god," included guest stints from veteran jazz trumpeter Jimmy Owens and synthesizer player Bernard wright.
  随后专辑：“噢，我的上帝”，列入任期客人吹鼓手从老爵士乐理欧文斯和集大成选手贝尔纳赖特。