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

• 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。
• 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。
• A well-researched biography that pulls many trends of Obama-ology under its umbrella but stints on fresh interpretations.
  这是一部研究深入的传记，涵盖了当下许多对奥巴马的研究成果，但又有全新的解读。
• After stints at retailers Rachel Roy and 3.1 Phillip Lim, Sun launched her line of highly wearable dresses and separates almost two years ago.
  在短暂就职于时尚品牌RachelRoy与3.1PhillipLim之后，Sun在大约两年前发起了自己的品牌，销售有着很强可穿性的连衣裙与上下装。
• This was the first of several stints as a Hollywood script writer for Faulkner.
  这是福克纳作为好莱坞电影编剧的若干任务的头一件。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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）。
• Today, however, many young people believe they have no chance of getting anywhere without a couple of stints of unpaid work behind them.
  不过，现在许多年轻人相信，如果没有几段无薪工作的经历，他们就没有任何取得进展的机会。