stint
- v.吝惜;吝啬;节省
- n.从事某项工作(或活动)的时间
复数: stints 过去式: stinted 现在分词: stinting 过去分词: stinted 第三人称单数: stints
noun
从事某项工作(或活动)的时间
a period of time that you spend working somewhere or doing a particular activity
He did a stint abroad early in his career.
他早先在国外干过一段时间。
a two-year stint in the Navy
在海军服役两年
verb
usually used in negative sentences 通常用于否定句节省;吝惜
to provide or use only a small amount of sth
She never stints on the food at her parties.
她举办聚会吃的东西从不小气。
We don't need to stint ourselves─have some more!
我们没必要节省——再吃点!
noun
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- an individual's prescribed share of work
- her stint as a lifeguard exhausted her
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- smallest American sandpiper
- Synonym: least sandpiper Erolia minutilla
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- an unbroken period of time during which you do something
- there were stretches of boredom
- he did a stretch in the federal penitentiary
- Synonym: stretch
verb
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- supply sparingly and with restricted quantities
- sting with the allowance
- Synonym: skimp scant
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- subsist on a meager allowance
- scratch and scrimp
- Synonym: scrimp skimp
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Now , fill it up , brother , don 't stint .
现在快帮我斟满酒,兄弟,别吝啬。
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Richard certainly doesn 't stint on the wine in his cooking .
理查德做菜时当然不会吝惜葡萄酒。
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He did a stint abroad early in his career .
他早先在国外干过一段时间。
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She never stints on the food at her parties .
她举办聚会吃的东西从不小气。
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We don 't need to stint ourselves ─ have some more !
我们没必要节省——再吃点!
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We hope that you will not stint your criticism .
尚希不吝指教。
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She never stints herself of money to buy books for her children .
她从不吝惜掏钱让子女们买书
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She stinted herself of food in order to let the children have enough .
她自己省着吃,好让孩子们吃饱
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He lavished money on his children without stint .
他在孩子们身上花钱毫不吝惜。
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Penny-pinching landlords stinted their tenants on heat and hot water .
小气的房东在房客的取暖和热水供应上进行克扣
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He stints himself in [ of ] sleep .
他节制睡眠
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Design of Production Cost and Stint Statistic Subsystem on Manufacturing Information Management
生产信息管理中生产成本及定额统计子系统的设计
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She gave of her time and money without stint .
她对拿出时间和金钱从来都不会舍不得。
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Don 't stint yourself ; take all you want .
别限制你自己,要什么就拿什么。
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I pulled a stint straight out of high school .
大学毕业后我被分配工作。
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I have also learnt some conversational Chinese during my stint in China .
在中国工作的这些年又让我掌握了一些中文会话。
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He has just finished a stint of compulsory military service .
他刚服完义务兵役。
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After his last stint inside , he moved to russia .
在他最后在内部确立地位以后,他去了俄罗斯。
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What 's different today from your previous stint as an analyst ?
如今的工作跟以前的分析师工作有什么不同?
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But the government still does not stint the water for lawns .
但是,政府对于灌溉草坪用水却是毫不吝惜。
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Especially when they get back from a stint in rehab .
尤其是从劳教所回来以后。
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In that time , my wife has had five stints at four organizations .
期间,我太太在四个机构担任过五个职位。
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Mr Jobs ' first stint at Apple was to last less than a decade .
乔布斯在苹果的第一段职业生涯持续了不到10年。
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Then I had a stint as security officer in Hong kong .
我那时在香港做过一阵护卫员。
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Others players of his stature also tend to leave China after brief stints .
其他同等水平的球员也常常在短暂停留后离开中国。
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Everybody must do a daily stint in the kitchen .
每个人都应该每天在厨房里干点活儿。
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Q : And the middle stint , you seemed to lose time then ?
在比赛中间阶段尼似乎损失了一些时间?
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Todd learned data processing by doing a short stint at a junior college .
托德在一所大专学校定时听课,学习了数据处理。
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For fond dream at heart , do not stint everything , includes life .
为了心中的梦,不惜所有一切,包括生命。
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China has completed its stint as host with a superstar-studded closing ceremony .
中国以明星云集的闭幕式结束了奥运会东道国的使命。