stints

英 [stɪnts]

美 [stɪnts]

n.  从事某项工作(或活动)的时间
v.  节省; 吝惜
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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

• After stints carrying sacks on a construction site and selling lamb kebabs in the street, she ended up as a masseuse in a public bathhouse earning$ 60 a month.
  在一个建筑工地扛沙袋，在街上卖羊肉串，最后她落得在一家公共澡堂，当了一位女按摩师，每月赚60美元。
• 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。
• A subsequent album," oh, my god," included guest stints from veteran jazz trumpeter Jimmy Owens and synthesizer player Bernard wright.
  随后专辑：“噢，我的上帝”，列入任期客人吹鼓手从老爵士乐理欧文斯和集大成选手贝尔纳赖特。
• 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。
• If a Service-to-Self soul, they may view the life they are losing as one of their better stints, and fear being placed into a crippled body, or one enslaved by others in a future incarnation.
  如果一个灵魂是服务自我的，他可能会将正逝去的生命看作是更好的份额，并且害怕被放在残疾的躯体中，或者是在未来的化身中受到奴役。
• 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）。
• She's also done stints as a wrestler and has some experience acting.
  另外她做过一段时间的摔角选手，还有过当演员的经历。
• After that and a couple of other food-related stints, she finally opened Family Recipe in September of 2011.
  之后她又短期做过几份与食品有关的工作，最终于2011年9月开设了家族秘伝餐馆。
• After college, Mel had a few stints on stage and starred in a few TV shows.
  大学毕业后，梅尔却很少再登台演出，也很少出演电视节目。
• His stints running Fujian and Zhejiang, two dynamic provinces, are said to have made him more sympathetic to the private sector.
  据信，执掌两个生机勃勃的省份福建和浙江的经历，让他更加同情私营行业。