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V-ERG
(使)移動;(使)挪動;(使)轉移
If you shift something or if it shifts, it moves slightly.
例句
He stopped, shifting his cane to his left hand...
他停了下來，將手杖移到左手。
He shifted from foot to foot...
他從一只腳換到另一只腳。
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V-ERG
(意見、情況、政策)有所變動，稍作改變;使發生些許變化
If someone's opinion, a situation, or a policy shifts or is shifted, it changes slightly.
例句
Attitudes to mental illness have shifted in recent years...
最近幾年對精神病的態度已有所改變。
The emphasis should be shifted more towards Parliament.
重點應更多地轉向議會。
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VERB
推卸，推諉，轉嫁(責任)
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.
例句
It was a vain attempt to shift the responsibility for the murder to somebody else...
試圖將謀殺的罪責轉嫁給他人是徒勞的。
Their husbands try to shift the blame by accusing them of having 'suspicious minds'.
她們的丈夫指責她們“疑心太重”，試圖以此來推諉責任。
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VERB
銷售，出售(滯銷商品)
If a shop or company shifts goods, they sell goods that are difficult to sell.
例句
Some suppliers were selling at a loss to shift stock.
一些供應商賠本銷售存貨。
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VERB
換(車擋);變(車速)
If you shift gears in a car, you put the car into a different gear.
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N-COUNT
輪班;當班時間;輪班職工
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.
例句
His father worked shifts in a steel mill.
他父親是一家煉鋼廠的輪班工人。
...workers coming home from the afternoon shift...
上完下午班回家的工人們