跟我背cet4核心词汇020: shift
shift
难度：4星核心词汇，属常用3000词
基本释义
v.移动；改变；换挡；字型转换
n.轮班；变化；移动；计谋；轮班职工
双语释义
v.(动词)
vt. & vi. 移动 change in position or direction; move from place to place
vt. & vi. 去掉 get rid of or remove
vt. & vi. 快速行进 move very fast
同义词
n. displacement，duty period，switch，transformation
v. agitate，dislodge，switch，transfer
词汇辨析
move，shift，transfer，remove
这些动词均可表示“从一处移往另一处”之意。
move 普通用词，指从一处到另一外的任何距离的转移。
shift 侧重位置与方向的改变。
transfer 一般表示转送或移交迁移，尤指交通运输中的换乘或职务的调动等。
remove 作“移动”解时，与move可换用，还可指撤职或开除学藉等。
参考例句
1. his new book has been shifting like wildfire.
他的新书一直十分畅销。
2. a sudden shift in wind suggests a coming storm.
风向的突然改变，暗示着一场暴风雨。
3. all by itself, this shift lowers the carbon intensity of an economy.
单是这种变迁本身，就会降低一个经济体的碳强度。
1.v-t/v-i if you shift something or if it shifts, it moves slightly. 稍微移动
例：he stopped, shifting his cane to his left hand.
他停下来，把手杖移到左手。
例：he shifted from foot to foot.
他从一只脚换到另一只脚。
2.v-t/v-i if someone's opinion, a situation, or a policy shifts or is shifted, it changes slightly. 稍微改变
例：attitudes to mental illness have shifted in recent years.
对精神病的态度近年来已稍微有所改变。
3.n-count shift is also a noun. 稍微改变 [usu n prep]
例：...a shift in government policy.
…政府政策的些许改变。
4.v-t if someone shifts the responsibility or blame for something onto you, they unfairly make you responsible or make people blame you for it, instead of them. 推卸; 转嫁 [表不满]
例：it was a vain attempt to shift the responsibility for the murder to somebody else.
把这项谋杀的罪责转嫁于他人是徒劳之举。
5.v-t if you shift gears in a car, you put the car into a different gear. 换 (挡) [美国英语]
6.n-count if a group of factory workers, nurses, or other people work shifts, they work for a set period before being replaced by another group, so that there is always a group working. each of these set periods is called a shift. you can also use shift to refer to a group of workers who work together on a particular shift. 轮班
例：his father worked shifts in a steel mill.
他的父亲在一家钢铁厂轮班工作。
常见用法
用作动词 (v.)
the tools shift around in the car boot every time we turn a corner.
我们每次转弯，汽车行李箱里的工具就来回动。
the left is shifting their ground.
左派正在改变立常
you have to shift as you drive around the corner.
你拐角时要换挡变速。
用作名词 (n.)
they were taking turns to be on the night shift.
他们轮流做夜班。
this accident caused a dramatic shift in public opinion.
这个意外引起了公众舆论的急剧变化。
the 21st century has been seeing a gradual shift of people from the country to the town.
21世纪,人口开始渐渐由乡村向市镇转移。
as a temporary shift, he covered up the leak with a plastic bag.
作为权宜之计，他用塑料袋把漏洞给包上了。