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Picture nudging something from where it sits to a new place — the load doesn't disappear, it just ends up somewhere else. Everything else 'shift' does is that same sliding-across move, applied to heavier things, to attention, to opinions, to blame, even to a position in time.

可以想成：把一個東西從原本的位置往旁邊「挪一下」，東西沒有消失，只是落到了別的地方。shift 其他所有用法，都是這…更多收起可以想成：把一個東西從原本的位置往旁邊「挪一下」，東西沒有消失，只是落到了別的地方。shift 其他所有用法，都是這個「橫向滑移」的動作，套到更重的東西、注意力、看法、責任、甚至時間上的位置。

原始詞典資料42 筆記錄

以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，原文照列，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。

Shiftnoun

  • 1

    computingengineeringmathematicsA modifier key whose main function is shifting between two or more functions of any of certain other keys (usually by pressing Shift and the other button simultaneously).

shiftnoun/ˈʃɪft/

  • 1

    A movement to do something, a beginning.

  • 2

    An act of shifting; a slight movement or change.

    • There was a shift in the political atmosphere.
    • c. 1620-1626, Henry Wotton, letter to Nicholas Pey My going to Oxford was not merely for shift of air.
  • 3

    obsoleteA share, a portion assigned on division.

  • 4

    historicalA type of women's undergarment of dress length worn under dresses or skirts, a slip or chemise.

    • Just last week she bought a new shift at the market.
    • No; without a gown, in a shift that was somewhat of the coarsest, and none of the cleanest, bedewed likewise with some odoriferous effluvia, the produce of the day's labour, with a pitchfork in her hand, Molly Seagrim approached.
  • 5

    A simple straight-hanging, loose-fitting dress.

  • 6

    A change of workers, now specifically a set group of workers or period of working time.

    • We'll work three shifts a day till the job's done.
    • Work commenced at 2.30 p.m. on Saturday and continued without break until 4 a.m. on Monday morning, in the course of which three shifts of upwards of 90 men each and three steam cranes were employed.
  • 7

    The gear mechanism in a motor vehicle.

    • Does it come with a stick-shift?
  • 8

    computingengineeringmathematicsA control code or character used to change between different character sets.

另外 12 個記錄的用法
  • 9

    computingengineeringmathematicsA control code or character used to change between different character sets.

  • 10

    computingengineeringmathematicsA bit shift.

  • 11

    ball-gamesbaseballgamesAn infield shift.

    • Teams often use a shift against this lefty.
  • 12

    The act of kissing passionately.

    • She flicked her hair out of her eyes again and looked into yours as you put your hands on her waist. Then her tongue was in your mouth and yours was in hers. You were getting the shift. Ye were shifting.
    • [If] I went on dates with these two [alcohols], right, you're a deep meaningful conversation with this one, … but this one? A shift and a finger and maybe you'd go home, do you know what I mean?
  • 13

    archaicA contrivance, a device to try when other methods fail.

    • If I get down, and do not break my limbs, I'll find a thousand shifts to get away: As good to die and go, as die and stay.
  • 14

    archaicA trick, an artifice.

    • And if the boy have not a woman's gift To rain a shower of commanded tears, An onion will do well for such a shift
    • Reduced to pitiable shifts.
  • 15

    businessconstructionmanufacturingThe extent, or arrangement, of the overlapping of plank, brick, stones, etc., that are placed in courses so as to break joints.

  • 16

    businessminingA breaking off and dislocation of a seam; a fault.

  • 17

    biologygeneticsmedicineA mutation in which the DNA or RNA from two different sources (such as viruses or bacteria) combine.

    • This kind of change, called shift - or more memorably, 'viral sex' - tends to trigger a pandemic, because a radically different virus demands a radically different immune response, and that takes time to mobilise.
  • 18

    entertainmentlifestylemusicIn violin-playing, any position of the left hand except that nearest the nut.

  • 19

    A period of time in which one's consciousness resides in another reality, usually achieved through meditation or other means.

  • 20

    slangbe done; ruined

shiftverb/ˈʃɪft/

  • 1

    To move from one place to another; to redistribute.

    • We'll have to shift these boxes to the downtown office.
    • By shifting the longitude problem to the scientific community, they stifled public criticism of their inability to solve the problem. […] But was it responsible governance to pass the Longitude Act without other efforts to protect British seamen? Or might it have been subterfuge—a disingenuous attempt to shift attention away from the realities of their life at sea.
  • 2

    To change in form or character; switch.

    • As a result, I shifted my approach to focus on group-generated activities and broadened the chronological time frame.
    • His voice shifted from song to whisper.
  • 3

    To change position; to move.

    • She shifted slightly in her seat.
    • His political stance shifted daily.
  • 4

    To change residence; to leave and live elsewhere.

    • We are shifting to America next month.
  • 5

    obsoleteTo change (clothes, especially underwear); to change the clothes of.

    • 'Tis very good to wash his hands and face often, to shift his clothes, to have fair linen about him, to be decently and comely attired […].
  • 6

    obsoleteTo change (someone's) clothes; sometimes specifically, to change underwear.

    • As it were, to ride day and night; and […] not to have patience to shift me.
    • The first thing he did was to secure a convenient lodging at the inn where he dined; then he shifted himself, and according to the direction he had received, went to the house of Mrs. Gauntlet […].
  • 7

    To change gears (in an automobile).

    • I crested the hill and shifted into fifth.
  • 8

    To move the keys of a typewriter over in order to type capital letters or special characters.

另外 12 個記錄的用法
  • 9

    To switch to a character entry mode for capital letters or special characters.

  • 10

    computingengineeringmathematicsTo manipulate a binary number by moving all of its digits left or right; compare rotate.

    • Shifting 1001 to the left yields 10010; shifting it right yields 100.
  • 11

    computingengineeringmathematicsTo remove (the first value from an array).

  • 12

    To dispose of, remove.

    • How can I shift a grass stain?
  • 13

    To hurry; to move quickly.

    • If you shift, you might make the 2:19.
    • Time is running out, so I renounce a spin on a Class 387 for a fast run to Paddington on another Class 800 - a shame as the weather was perfect for pictures. Even so, it's enjoyable - boy, can those trains shift under the wires.
  • 14

    vulgarslangTo engage in sexual petting with.

    • The question is what she's done to Waldron, said Eric. Look at him hiding in his locker there. Come on, spit it out. Did you shift her?
  • 15

    archaicTo resort to expedients for accomplishing a purpose; to cope, get by, manage, make do.

    • […] men in distress will look to themselves in the First Place, and leave their Companions to Shift as well as they can.
    • My Fellow-Slaves were […] as courteous to me as I could well-expect; and as they had Plantations of their own, they gave me […] such Victuals as they had; especially on dark Nights, and at such Times as I could not shift for myself.
  • 16

    To practice indirect or evasive methods; to contrive.

    • But this I dare auow of all those Schoole-men, that though they were exceeding wittie, yet they better teach all their Followers to shift, then to resolue, by their distinctions.
  • 17

    entertainmentlifestylemusicIn violin-playing, to move the left hand from its original position next to the nut.

  • 18

    To use meditation or other means to change the reality that one's consciousness resides in.

    • I finally shifted to Hogwarts last night!
  • 19

    slangTo steal or kidnap.

  • 20

    video-gamesTo crouch in game, especially if the shift key is pressed to initiate crouching.

資料來源：英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary（CC BY-SA 4.0）。 原文照列，未經改寫。