Shift

(noun.) the act of moving from one place to another; 'his constant shifting disrupted the class'.

(noun.) an event in which something is displaced without rotation.

(noun.) a crew of workers who work for a specific period of time.

(noun.) the time period during which you are at work.

(verb.) move and exchange for another; 'shift the date for our class reunion'.

(verb.) move from one setting or context to another; 'shift the emphasis'; 'shift one's attention'.

(verb.) change in quality; 'His tone shifted'.

(verb.) use a shift key on a keyboard; 'She could not shift so all her letters are written in lower case'.

(verb.) change place or direction; 'Shift one's position'.

(verb.) change gears; 'you have to shift when you go down a steep hill' .

(verb.) change phonetically as part of a systematic historical change; 'Grimm showed how the consonants shifted'.

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• However, I made a shift to go forward, till I came to a part of the field where the corn had been laid by the rain and wind. 乔纳森·斯威夫特. 格列佛游记.
• Here it is the shift from deadliness to normal family life that is the strangest, Robert Jordan thought. 欧内斯特·海明威. 丧钟为谁而鸣.
• It seemed that men could not shift their weight quickly enough to meet the gusts of wind. 鲁伯特·萨金特·荷兰. 历史性发明.
• When I was young the earth moved so that you could feel it all shift in space and were afraid it would go out from under you. 欧内斯特·海明威. 丧钟为谁而鸣.
• As the arm lifts upward, the pin moves along the under side of the lower arm of the rocking-lever, thus causing it to cant and shift the type-wheels to the right or left, as desired. 弗兰克·刘易斯·戴尔. 爱迪生的生平和发明.
• Let us now shift the scene, if you please to Mr. Luker's house at Lambeth. 威尔基·柯林斯. 月亮宝石.
• Ever so fur as I went, ever so fur the mountains seemed to shift away from me. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 大卫·科波菲尔.
• But here there was nothing to be shifted off in a wild speculation on the future. 简·奥斯汀. 爱玛.
• The centre of gravity of Islam shifted across the desert from Damascus to Mesopotamia. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• Public attention was shifted and a political crisis avoided. 沃尔特·李普曼. 政治序论.
• In 1138 the capital was shifted from Nankin, which was now too close to the northern frontier, to the city of Han Chau on the coast. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• The cloth was automatically shifted to correspond to the pattern to be produced, and thus was chain stitch embroidery first manufactured. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世纪发明.
• When a ray of light passes through plane glass, like a window pane, it is shifted somewhat, but its direction does not change; that is, the emergent ray is parallel to the incident ray. 伯莎M.克拉克. 科学通论.
• The figure perceptibly gave up its fixity, shifted a step or two, and turned round. 托马斯·哈代. 还乡.
• The scene shifts from the plantation, to Betteredge's little sitting-room. 威尔基·柯林斯. 月亮宝石.
• The wind shifts to the weSt. Peace, peace, Banshee--keening at every window! 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 维莱特.
• Oh, she varies: she shifts and changes like the wind. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 维莱特.
• Be it only known then, that it was just at the end of his Lorne shifts and his lawn shirts. 哈里特·威尔逊. 哈里特·威尔逊回忆录.
• As business increased he put on a night force, and was his own foreman on both shifts. 弗兰克·刘易斯·戴尔. 爱迪生的生平和发明.
• She would be free forever from the shifts, the expedients, the humiliations of the relatively poor. 伊迪丝·华顿. 快乐之家.
• When she got her money she gambled; when she had gambled it she was put to shifts to live; who knows how or by what means she succeeded? 威廉·梅克比斯·萨克雷. 名利场.
• Mr. Jackson, shifting himself slightly in his chair, turned a tranquil gaze on the young man's burning face. 伊迪丝·华顿. 纯真年代.
• The shifting of the air-currents means that the centre of air-pressure moves. 鲁伯特·萨金特·荷兰. 历史性发明.
• Otherwise, it is neither giving nor taking, but a shifting about of the position of things in space, like the stirring of water and sand with a stick. 约翰·杜威. 民主与教育.
• He pointed out to me the shifting colours of the landscape, and the appearances of the sky. 玛丽·雪莱. 弗兰肯斯坦.
• In these a single machine is provided with various tools, and adapted to perform a great variety of work by shifting the position of the material and the tools. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世纪发明.
• The Wrights doubted whether this was the best form for shifting weather, and built theirs more on the pattern of the gull’s wings, curving slightly at the tips. 鲁伯特·萨金特·荷兰. 历史性发明.
• There is but such a quantity of merit between them; just enough to make one good sort of man; and of late it has been shifting about pretty much. 简·奥斯汀. 傲慢与偏见.

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