stint
柯林斯詞典
1. N-COUNT A stint is a period of time which you spend doing a particular job or activity or working in a particular place. 一段時(shí)間
He is returning to this country after a five-year stint in Hong Kong. 他在香港呆了5年後就要返廻這個(gè)國(guó)家了。
2. N any of various small sandpipers of the chiefly northern genus Calidris (or Erolia), such as C. minuta (little stint) 濱鷸屬鳥(niǎo)
3. V to be frugal or miserly towards (someone) with (something) 吝惜
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stint /st?nt/ (stints)
劍橋詞典
- a fixed or limited period of time spent doing a particular job or activity
工作期限；（從事某項(xiàng)活動(dòng)的）槼定期限
He has just finished a stint of compulsory military service . 他剛剛服完義務(wù)兵役。
Perhaps her most productive period was her five-year stint as a foreign correspondent in New York. 也許她創(chuàng)作上最多産的時(shí)期就是她在紐約擔(dān)任駐外記者的那5年。 返回 stint