stint是什么意思

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      stint 是什么意思

      音标:[ stint ]  

      中文翻译与英英解释

      vt.,vi.
      1.吝惜;限制,节制(饮食等)。
      2.〔古语〕停止。
      n.
      1.吝惜;限制。
      2.定量,定额 (of); 定额的工作。
      3.【鸟类】滨鹬。
      短语和例子
      do one's daily stint 做每天指定的工作。 stint oneself in [of] food 节制饮食。 with no stint=without stint 不吝惜地,无限制地,慷慨地。
      adv.
      -ingly ,-less adj.

      an individual''s prescribed share of work; "her stint as a lifeguard exhausted her"

      smallest American sandpiper
      同义词:least sandpiper, Erolia minutilla,

      an unbroken period of time during which you do something; "there were stretches of boredom"; "he did a stretch in the federal penitentiary"
      同义词:stretch,

      supply sparingly and with restricted quantities; "sting with the allowance"
      同义词:skimp, scant,

      subsist on a meager allowance; "scratch and scrimp"
      同义词:scrimp, skimp,

例句与用法

      1.
      We hope that you will not stint your criticism ..
      尚希不吝指教。

      2.
      She praised them without stint .
      她极力夸奖他们。

      3.
      Why stint myself now ?
      现在何必亏待自己呢?

      4.
      Don't let him stint you .
      别让他对你抠门。

      5.
      I'd stint myself to keep you both in a genteel and seemly style .
      我会节衣缩食来让你们俩过一种上流社会的体面生活。

      6.
      I'm sure he stints himself at lunch on purpose when he knows he is coming here for tea .
      我敢肯定,当他知道他要来这儿吃茶点时,他就存心在吃午饭时留着肚子。

      7.
      What is the good of your mother and me economizing and stinting ourselves to give you a university education ?
      那么我和你母亲省吃俭用,自己刻苦,供你上大学,有什么用处呢?

      8.
      Next came a stint as a reporter in windsor, during which he found stringing words together not only easy but exhilarating .
      接着又在温索尔干了一阵新闻记者,其间他发现把字串成文章不但容易而且挺有意思。

      9.
      But it's in things for show they cut short; while for such as me, it's in things for life we have to stint .
      可他们也不过是在表面的奢华上省俭些。另一方面,象我这样的人,却不得不在生活必需品上去要求减缩。

      10.
      Especially when they get back from a stint in rehab
      特别是他们不被追究责任的时候