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

• Johnson worked at The Wall Street Journal, for13 years, which included stints as bureau chief in Berlin and senior correspondent in Beijing.
  约翰逊曾在《华尔街日报》工作十三年，作过柏林办事处的负责人以及驻北京资深记者。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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）。
• An academic economist by trade, he built his reputation through successful stints as a deputy dean at the University of Michigan and dean at the University of Virginia.
  作为一名职业经济学学者，他在担任密歇根大学商学院副院长以及弗吉尼亚大学（UniversityofVirginia）商学院院长期间，渐渐树立起了自己的声名。