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

• 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。
• After entering her interests into a computer programme at the school career service she was offered a variety of stints at conventional offices.
  在学校职业服务处，她在一个计算机项目中填入了自己的兴趣，随后接到了一些常规办公室工作的邀请。
• Many professional women would happily agree to check email even seven days a week and jump in, if necessary, for intense project stints& so long as over the course of a year, the time devoted to work is more limited.
  只要一年下来总工作时长有限度，许多职业女性甚至都乐意接受每周七天都查邮件，并且有必要的话也会迅速投入到紧张的项目中去。
• He can fly in and fly out17 times a year for two-week stints, like I do, and he'd be silly not to.
  他可以像我一样每年来回17次，每次工作两周。如果他不干，那他就是傻瓜。
• He has had various stints in the country, first teaching English, then as a postgraduate student, interpreter and the regional manager for a US car parking firm.
  在捷克，他干过各种行当，先是教英语，然后念研究生、当口译，也做过一家美国泊车公司的地区经理。
• In February, Dunst checked in to the center, not long after Lindsay Lohan and Eva Mendes had stints there.
  邓斯特在二月在这家治疗中心登记，在那不久前，琳赛罗涵和伊娃·门德斯都曾在这家治疗中心接受勒戒。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。