shifts

英 [ʃɪfts] 美 [ʃɪfts]

v.  转移; 挪动; 赶快; 快速移动; 变换; 更替; 变动
n.  改变; 转移; 转换; 变换; 班; 轮班; 轮班工作时间; 轮班职工
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  1. V-ERG (使)移动;(使)挪动;(使)转移
    If you shift something or if it shifts, it moves slightly.
    1. He stopped, shifting his cane to his left hand...
      他停了下来，将手杖移到左手。
    2. He shifted from foot to foot...
      他从一只脚换到另一只脚。
    3. The entire pile shifted and slid, thumping onto the floor.
      那整整一摞东西动了一下后滑落下来，嘭的一声全掉到了地上。
    4. ...the squeak of his boots in the snow as he shifted his weight.
      他挪动身体时靴子在雪地里发出的吱吱声
  2. V-ERG (意见、情况、政策)有所变动，稍作改变;使发生些许变化
    If someone's opinion, a situation, or a policy shifts or is shifted, it changes slightly.
    1. Attitudes to mental illness have shifted in recent years...
      最近几年对精神病的态度已有所改变。
    2. The emphasis should be shifted more towards Parliament.
      重点应更多地转向议会。
    3. Shift is also a noun.
    4. ...a shift in government policy.
      政府政策的微调
    5. ...the shift in opinion away from the Prime Minister.
      和首相的意见有所不同
  3. VERB 推卸，推诿，转嫁(责任)
    If someone shifts the responsibility or blame for something onto you, they unfairly make you responsible or make people blame you for it, instead of them.
    1. It was a vain attempt to shift the responsibility for the murder to somebody else...
      试图将谋杀的罪责转嫁给他人是徒劳的。
    2. Their husbands try to shift the blame by accusing them of having 'suspicious minds'.
      她们的丈夫指责她们“疑心太重”，试图以此来推诿责任。
  4. VERB 销售，出售(滞销商品)
    If a shop or company shifts goods, they sell goods that are difficult to sell.
    1. Some suppliers were selling at a loss to shift stock.
      一些供应商赔本销售存货。
  5. 换(车挡);变(车速)
    If you shift gears in a car, you put the car into a different gear.

      1. in BRIT, use 英国英语用 change

    1. N-COUNT 轮班;当班时间;轮班职工
      If a group of factory workers, nurses, or other people work shifts, they work for a set period before being replaced by another group, so that there is always a group working. Each of these set periods is called a shift. You can also use shift to refer to a group of workers who work together on a particular shift.
      1. His father worked shifts in a steel mill.
        他父亲是一家炼钢厂的轮班工人。
      2. ...workers coming home from the afternoon shift...
        上完下午班回家的工人们
      3. The night shift should have been safely down the mine long ago.
        上夜班的矿工应该早就安全地到达井下了。
    2. See also: shifting
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    双语例句

    1. His father worked shifts in a steel mill.
      他父亲是一家炼钢厂的轮班工人。
    2. Overcrowding is so bad that prisoners have to sleep in shifts, while others have to stand.
      过度拥挤的现象十分严重，囚犯们不得不轮流睡觉，其他人则只能站着。
    3. Our factory operates round the clock on three shifts.
      我们厂日夜三班倒。
    4. Would you mind changing shifts with me?
      我们俩调换一下值班时间好吗？
    5. The workers in this workshop do day and night shifts in weekly rotation.
      这个车间的工人上白班和上夜班每周轮换一次。
    6. Day and night shifts are changing now.
      日班和夜班的工人正在换班。
    7. When getting into trouble, he always shifts the blame to others.
      一遇到麻烦，他就把责任推诿给别人。
    8. Workers in the machine shop work in three shifts.
      机械车间实行三班倒。
    9. When he had gambled his money, he was put to shifts to live.
      他输光了钱就凑合着过日子。
    10. These shifts bespeak dissatisfaction with the constraints of traditional banqueting.
      这些变化显示了人们对传统宴会种种约束的不满。
    11. It's already time for shifts!
      已经是换班时间了！
    12. The action of the novel shifts from Paris to london.
      小说情节从巴黎移到了伦敦。
    13. But now shifts in natural migration patterns may change where and how such disease outbreaks occur.
      但是自然迁徙的模式的转变如今可能改变这类疾病暴发出现的地点和方式。
    14. That you and your partner take alternating shifts.
      你和你的搭档实行轮班制。
    15. Masters, every new Cosmic Era brings with it up shifts and transformations.
      大师们，每一个新的宇宙时代都会带来向上移动和转变。
    16. Those complicated Doppler shifts are where the angular resolution comes from.
      有了这些复杂的多普勒偏移，就有了角分辨率的问题。
    17. This led not only to industrial changes but shifts in politics and society.
      这不仅导致了工业革命，也导致了政治和社会的变迁。
    18. They work in 12-hour shifts, on rotations determined by their departments.
      他们的工作为12个小时一班，由他们的部门决定轮换次序。
    19. The working day is divided into three shifts.
      一个工作日被分为三个轮班。
    20. Similar shifts occurred in other crisis-hit countries.
      在其它受危机打击的国家也出现了类似的转移。
    21. Shifts in political influence and military force will lag behind these economic changes.
      政治影响力和军事力量方面的变化将滞后于这些经济变革。
    22. I have been pulling double shifts for four months.
      我一天上两个班，已经四个月了。
    23. Most of the chemical reactions that we have been studying involve shifts in the location of electrons.
      我们已经研究的大多数化学反应涉及到电子位置的转移。
    24. The doctors and nurses in this hospital work in three shifts.
      这家医院的医生和护士分三班工作。
    25. With economic growth have come demographic shifts and life improvements.
      经济快速增长还影响了人口构成和生活水平。
    26. Have you taken account of possible shifts in demand?
      需求有可能变化，你考虑到了吗？
    27. This is going to create shifts for the continents, oceans, and waterways.
      这是即将为陆地，海洋和水道创造转移。
    28. I mention these misconceptions because I think they stand in the way of understanding shifts in the information environment.
      我之所以提到这些错误的概念，是因为我觉得它们妨碍了我们理解信息环境的变化。
    29. These seeds of change were planted by forward-looking leaders who saw the opportunities amidst seismic shifts and shifting trends.
      那些具有前瞻眼光的领导人，在社会剧烈的变化和发展的趋势中看到了机遇，播撒了这些改革的种子。
    30. But there were some interesting shifts and additions.
      但也有一些有趣的变化和补充。
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