stint
柯林斯词典
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. 一段时间
He is returning to this country after a five-year stint in Hong Kong. 他在香港呆了5年后就要返回这个国家了。
2. N any of various small sandpipers of the chiefly northern genus Calidris (or Erolia), such as C. minuta (little stint) 滨鹬属鸟
3. V to be frugal or miserly towards (someone) with (something) 吝惜
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stint /stɪnt/ (stints)
剑桥词典
- a fixed or limited period of time spent doing a particular job or activity
工作期限；（从事某项活动的）规定期限
He has just finished a stint of compulsory military service . 他刚刚服完义务兵役。
Perhaps her most productive period was her five-year stint as a foreign correspondent in New York. 也许她创作上最多产的时期就是她在纽约担任驻外记者的那5年。 返回 stint