1.(使)移动;(使)挪动;(使)转移
If youshift something or if itshifts, it moves slightly.
e.g. He stopped, shifting his cane to his left hand...
他停了下来,将手杖移到左手。
e.g. He shifted from foot to foot...
他从一只脚换到另一只脚。
2.(意见、情况、政策)有所变动,稍作改变;使发生些许变化
If someone's opinion, a situation, or a policyshifts oris shifted, it changes slightly.
shift什么意思
e.g. Attitudes to mental illness have shifted in recent years...
最近几年对精神病的态度已有所改变。
e.g. The emphasis should be shifted more towards Parliament.
重点应更多地转向议会。
3.推卸,推诿,转嫁(责任)
If someoneshifts the responsibility or blame for something onto you, they unfairly make you responsible or make people blame you for it, instead of them.
shift的反义词
e.g. It was a vain attempt toshift the responsibility for the murder to somebody else...
试图将谋杀的罪责转嫁给他人是徒劳的。
e.g. Their husbands try toshift the blame by accusing them of having 'suspicious minds'.
她们的丈夫指责她们“疑心太重”,试图以此来推诿责任。
4.销售,出售(滞销商品)
If a shop or companyshifts goods, they sell goods that are difficult to sell.
e.g. Some suppliers were selling at a loss toshift stock.
一些供应商赔本销售存货。
5.换(车挡);变(车速)
If youshift gears in a car, you put the car into a different gear.
in BRIT, use 英国英语用 change
6.轮班;当班时间;轮班职工
If a group of factory workers, nurses, or other people workshifts, they work for a set period before being replaced by another group, so that there is always a group working. Each of these set periods is called ashift. You can also useshift to refer to a group of workers who work together on a particular shift.
e.g. His father worked shifts in a steel mill.
他父亲是一家炼钢厂的轮班工人。
e.g. ...workers coming home from the afternoonshift...
上完下午班回家的工人们
7. see also: shifting
相关词组:shift downshift up