shift
v. 转移; 变换; 改变(观点); 推卸; 去除; 销售; 换(档)
n. 转移; 轮班; 转换键; 直筒连衣裙
If you shift something or if it shifts, it moves slightly.
He stopped, shifting his cane to his left hand...
他停了下来,将手杖移到左手。
He shifted from foot to foot...
他从一只脚换到另一只脚。
If someone's opinion, a situation, or a policy shifts or is shifted, it changes slightly.
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。
The emphasis should be shifted more towards Parliament.
重点应更多地转向议会。
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.
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。
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。
If a shop or company shifts goods, they sell goods that are difficult to sell.
Some suppliers were selling at a loss to shift stock.
一些供应商赔本销售存货。
If you shift gears in a car, you put the car into a different gear.
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.
His father worked shifts in a steel mill.
他父亲是一家炼钢厂的轮班工人。
...workers coming home from the afternoon shift...
上完下午班回家的工人们
1. an event in which something is displaced without rotation
2. a qualitative change
3. the time period during which you are at work
4. the act of changing one thing or position for another;
5. the act of moving from one place to another;
6. (geology) a crack in the earth's crust resulting from the displacement of one side with respect to the other;
7. a group of workers who work for a specific period of time
8. a woman's sleeveless undergarment
9. a loose-fitting dress hanging straight from the shoulders without a waist
1. make a shift in or exchange of;
2. change place or direction;
3. move around;
4. move very slightly;
5. move from one setting or context to another;
6. change in quality;
7. move and exchange for another;
8. move sideways or in an unsteady way;
9. move abruptly;
10. use a shift key on a keyboard;
11. change phonetically as part of a systematic historical change;
12. change gears;
13. lay aside, abandon, or leave for another;
move, shift, transfer, remove
这些动词均可表示"从一处移往另一处"之意。
get a shift on
(英,非正式)加快;赶紧
make shift
尽力做到;将就;凑合
shift for oneself
自力更生;单独应付
shift one's ground
改变立场,改变主张
shifting sands
(尤指没有预料的)不断变化
You have to shift down when you climb up steep hills.
开车爬陡峭的山坡时,你得换低速挡.
I'm on the night shift today.
我今天上夜班.
The thieves couldn't shift any of those stolen colour televisions.
这伙盗贼无法把任何一部偷来的彩色电视机脱手.
They claim all the credit for themselves and shift all the blame on others.
他们把一切功劳归于自己,把一切错误推给别人.
Lend me a hand to shift this box, will you ?
来帮一下忙,把这箱子搬开, 好 吗 ?