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

• This was the first of several stints as a Hollywood script writer for Faulkner.
  这是福克纳作为好莱坞电影编剧的若干任务的头一件。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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 college, Mel had a few stints on stage and starred in a few TV shows.
  大学毕业后，梅尔却很少再登台演出，也很少出演电视节目。
• 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。
• 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。