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

• 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。
• 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。
• His solution was to become an intercontinental commuter, working six-week stints in India followed by two-week breaks back home in Glasgow.
  他的解决之道是成为一名洲际通勤者，每在印度工作6周之后，就飞回格拉斯哥家中休假两周。
• 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）。
• 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。
• The eight actors from the videos are doing four-hour stints in the gallery, killing time on the various sets.
  影像中的的8位演员在展览馆中正进行四小时的轮班工作，在不同的场景中消磨时光。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。