"his switch on abortion cost him the election"
"his constant shifting disrupted the class"
"they built it right over a geological fault"
"he studied the faulting of the earth's crust"
"First Joe led; then we switched"
"Shift one's position"
"transfer the packet from his trouser pockets to a pocket in his jacket"
"He shifted in his seat"
"shift the emphasis"
"shift one's attention"
"His tone shifted"
"shift the date for our class reunion"
"The ship careened out of control"
"The ship suddenly lurched to the left"
"She could not shift so all her letters are written in lower case"
"Grimm showed how the consonants shifted"
"you have to shift when you go down a steep hill"
"switch to a different brand of beer"
"She switched psychiatrists"
"The car changed lanes"
They shift about for several years.
他们在各处漂荡了好几年。
They have shifted away from this area.
他们已经从这里搬走了。
shift sth ⇔ awayThe wind shifted and blew the mist away.
风向改了,吹散了雾。
You have to shift down when you climb up steep hills.
开车爬陡峭的山坡时,你得换慢挡。
He shifted the case from one hand to the other.
他把手提箱从一只手移到另一只手。
The centre of the U.S. economy shifted from the agrarian areas to the industrial centres in the north.
美国的经济重心由农村转到北方的工业中心。
The recent hijacking has shifted attention from internal problems.
最近发生的劫机事件转移了人们对国内问题的注意力。
They deliberately shifted off the argument.
他们故意回避这个论点。
The rain shifted dust off the street.
雨把街上的尘土冲走了。
They tried to shift the burden of the crisis onto the working people.
他们想法把危机造成的负担转嫁到劳动人民身上去。
Shifting the load onto my other arm from time to time helped me to carry it.
我不时用双手交替着提那重物,这样省些劲。
Don't try to shift the blame onto somebody else.
不要把罪责都推到别人身上。
What really sticks in my craw is that he should try to shift the blame onto others.
实在令人气愤的是,他竟然把责任往别人身上推。
Much of the responsibility for the disaster was shifted onto John, and this was quite undeserved.
把这场灾难的大部分责任推到约翰身上,这太不公平了。
He shifted his luggage up to his flat.
他把行李搬到楼上住所里去。
When the wind shifted from south to north it began to get cold.
当风向由南转北时,天变冷了。
