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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

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