stint

stint音标

英 [stɪnt]

美 [stɪnt]

stint基本释义

v.节省；限制；停止

n.节约；限制；定额的工作；滨鹬

stint用法及例句

noun

1. an individual's prescribed share of work

e.g. her stint as a lifeguard exhausted her

2. smallest American sandpiper

Synonym: least sandpiperErolia minutilla

3. an unbroken period of time during which you do something

e.g. there were stretches of boredomhe did a stretch in the federal penitentiary

Synonym: stretch

verb

1. supply sparingly and with restricted quantities

e.g. sting with the allowance

Synonym: skimpscant

2. subsist on a meager allowance

e.g. scratch and scrimp

Synonym: scrimpskimp

1. (在某地的)工作时间，活动时间A stint is a period of time which you spend doing a particular job or activity or working in a particular place.

e.g. 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。

1. 节省：stinkweed 臭草 | stint 节省 | stipe 柄

2. 吝惜,节省：acquaintance熟人 | stint吝惜,节省 | stink臭气

3. 吝啬：tink 叮当声 | stint 吝啬 | flayflint 大吝啬鬼

4. 限制;定额;节约;定量：stinkstone 臭灰岩 | stint 限制;定额;节约;定量 | stipite 富含黄铁矿瘦煤

His wife and children had money lavished on them without stint.

出自：J. G. Holland

No need for stint where supplies were always at hand.

出自：E. R. Pitman

Would neither stint nor stick Our flesh from off our bones to pick.

出自：Shelley

近义词

临近词

period一段时间

time时间

spare备用的

scrimp节省

skimp舍不得给

stretch伸展

task任务

pinch捏

withhold抑制

shift移动

scant不充分的

job工作

duty义务

spell拼写

role作用

work工作

turn翻转

chore讨厌的工作

assignment分配

function职务

Stintzing

Stintzing's table

stint oneself

stipe

Stintzing's tables

stink

stint sb in food

stinted and intensive

stint money

Stinton

stint sb of food

stintless

相关列句

A stint at the University of California had consolidated those findings.(这里是指他在加利福尼亚大学短期工作期间进一步证实了他的发现。)

PercySpencer, an engineer at Raytheon after his WWI stint in the Navy, was known asan electronics genius.(第一次世界大战期间，珀西·斯宾塞曾在海*服役。战后，这位工程师就职于雷神公司，他是电子方面的天才。)

Or do a speed-cleaning stint once a week for two hours, and don’t clean the rest of the week.(或者每个星期只花两个小时来进行快速清洁，然后其余时间完全不做。)

The car was perfect and we were able to run a very long stint with the soft tyres.(今天赛车的状况非常完美，我们能够用一套软胎跑了很长的距离。)

Now, after a brief stint working for Adobe, he's starting anew.(目前，在Adobe短暂工作一段时间之后，詹姆斯决定从头再来。)

We don't need to stint ourselves—have some more!(我们没必要节省—再吃点！)

He has spent most of his life in exile in Switzerland, but put in a stint as a chicken farmer in Britain.(他一生中的大部分时间都被流放在瑞士，有段时间在英国做养鸡农民。)

"I learned a lot," Mr Nardelli says of his stint at Home Depot.(“我学到了很多，”纳德利在谈到自己在家得宝的工作时表示。)

IT DOESN'T alwayspay to dress up for a party in Nigeria:it may earn you a hefty fine or even a stint in jail.(在尼日利亚，穿着打扮去参加一场聚会并不总是划算的：它也许意味着给你挣来一笔巨额罚金甚或是被投进监狱。)

Following her stint as a lawyer she served in Finland's parliament for over 20 years.(担任律师一段时间后，她进入芬兰国会任职了20多年。)