shift
v. 轉移; 變換; 改變(觀點); 推卸; 去除; 銷售; 換(檔)
n. 轉移; 輪班; 轉換鍵; 直筒連衣裙
If you shift something or if it shifts, it moves slightly.
He stopped, shifting his cane to his left hand...
他停了下來,將手杖移到左手。
He shifted from foot to foot...
他從一隻腳換到另一隻腳。
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...
最近幾年對精神病的態度已有所改變。
The emphasis should be shifted more towards Parliament.
重點應更多地轉向議會。
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...
試圖將謀殺的罪責轉嫁給他人是徒勞的。
Their husbands try to shift the blame by accusing them of having 'suspicious minds'.
她們的丈夫指責她們“疑心太重”,試圖以此來推諉責任。
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.
一些供應商賠本銷售存貨。
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.
他父親是一家鍊鋼廠的輪班工人。
...workers coming home from the afternoon shift...
上完下午班回家的工人們
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
這些動詞均可表示"從一處移往另一處"之意。
get a shift on
(英,非正式)加快;趕緊
make shift
盡力做到;將就;湊合
shift for oneself
自力更生;單獨應付
shift one's ground
改變立場,改變主張
shifting sands
(尤指沒有預料的)不斷變化
You have to shift down when you climb up steep hills.
開車爬陡峭的山坡時,你得換低速擋.
I'm on the night shift today.
我今天上夜班.
The thieves couldn't shift any of those stolen colour televisions.
這夥盜賊無法把任何一部偷來的彩色電視機脫手.
They claim all the credit for themselves and shift all the blame on others.
他們把一切功勞歸於自己,把一切錯誤推給別人.
Lend me a hand to shift this box, will you ?
來幫一下忙,把這箱子搬開, 好 嗎 ?