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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• Many US companies do not have a policy requiring executives to have had international experience in order to obtain a senior position. In the UK, the better companies make it a requirement to have one or two [ foreign stints], she says.
  她表示：有些美国公司并未制定要求管理人士须具备国际经验方可谋得高职的政策。而在英国，好一点的公司都会要求具备在一两个国家的（海外工作经验）。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。