stint

单词stint

基本解释

n.: 吝惜；限制；定量；定额的工作
v.: 吝惜；节制(饮食等)；〈古〉停止
网络: 紧缩节省

英汉解释

• 【鸟类】滨鹬

• 定量,定额; 定额的工作

• 减缩;对…抠门

• 〔古语〕停止

• 吝惜;节省

• 吝惜;限制,节制(饮食等)

词性分析

• 过去分词：stinted

• 现在分词：stinting

• 第三人称单数：stints

同义词

v.skimpwithholdpinchsparen.spellstretchtimeshiftperiod

反义词

v.lavish

例句

• Today, however, many young people believe they have no chance of getting anywhere without a couple of stints of unpaid work behind them.

  不过，现在许多年轻人相信，如果没有几段无薪工作的经历，他们就没有任何取得进展的机会。

• Most teenagers with a games console tend to game not in short bursts, but in long stints (upwards of an hour).

  对绝大多数青少年来说，他们更倾向于玩历时较长的游戏（一小时以上），而不是需时比较短的爆炸游戏。

• Both have had long careers in public life, including stints at their finance ministries and heading their national central banks.

  两人都长期担任公职，有过在本国财政部工作和领导各自国家央行的经历。

• Aged just 25, she had picked up a camera after stints as a nurse and teaching peasant farmers to read.

  她当年只有25岁，在当过护士和教过农民认字后，拿起了相机。

• In the continuing program, candidates spend three months in the U. S. including stints with major airlines and aircraft manufacturers.

  参加进修项目的人员在美国学习3个月，其间还可与美国主要航空公司和飞机制造商进行交流。

• And both before and between his stints at the White House, he was a journalist.

  在成为白宫发言人之前，及两次服务期之间，他一直是作为记者。

• The majority of opportunities involve short-term stints working on long-term projects alongside scientists or other experts.

  大多数这样的工作都是为长期项目中的科学家或其他专家提供短期协助。

• But Sheikh Hasina, too, faced 13 charges, including extortion and conspiracy to murder, from one of her previous stints in power.

  而谢赫.哈希纳同样面临13项指控，包括敲诈勒索和参与谋杀，与她以前在权力上的慎用有所区别。

• 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。

• It is ever so humble, but the usual dwelling for road warriors on long stints out of town is no place like home.

  说来很可怜，常年奔波在外的经理和商人，通常找不到一个象家一样的住处。