"Shift" • Chinese-English Dictionary

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 zhuǎn yí to shift / to divert or distract (attention etc) / to change / to transform / metastasis (medicine) / to evacuate (people)
 zhuǎn biàn to change / to transform / shift / transformation / CL:個|个[ge4]
 bān to move (i.e. relocate oneself) / to move (sth relatively heavy or bulky) / to shift / to copy indiscriminately
 jià (of a woman) to marry / to marry off a daughter / to shift (blame etc)
 nuó to shift / to move
 nuó yòng to shift (funds) / to (legitimately) take funds set aside for one purpose in order to use them for another / to embezzle / to misappropriate
 yì dòng to shift / to alter / unusual change / abnormal move
 nuó dòng to move / to shift
 tuī xiè to avoid (esp. responsibility) / to shift (the blame) / to pass the buck
 bān cì grade / class number (in school) / flight or run number / flight or run (seen as an item) / shift (work period)
 yí wèi to shift / shift / translocation / displacement / (medicine) dislocation
 yí zhuǎn to shift / to transfer
 nuó kāi to move (sth) aside / to step aside / to move over (when sitting on a bench) / to shift (one's gaze)
 téng nuó to move / to shift / to move out of the way / to divert (money etc) to a different purpose
 wěi to entrust / to cast aside / to shift (blame etc) / to accumulate / roundabout / winding / dejected / listless / committee member / council / end / actually / certainly
 yí to move / to shift / to change / to alter / to remove
 qiān to move / to shift / to change (a position or location etc) / to promote
 yí to shift / to transfer
 dǎo teng to move / to shift / to exchange / to buy and sell / peddling
 diào qiān to transfer / to move / to shift
 tí qián to shift to an earlier date / to do sth ahead of time / in advance
 zhí bān to work a shift / on duty
 shí duàn time interval / work shift / time slot / the twelve two-hour divisions of the day
 zhuǎn rù to change over to / to shift to / to switch to
 zhuǎn zhé shift in the trend of events / turnaround / plot shift in a book / turn in the conversation
 biàn sù to change speed / to shift gear / variable-speed
 yè bān night shift
 yóu yí to wander / to shift around / to waver / to vacillate
 zì dòng dǎng automatic transmission / auto gear shift
 yí shī to move troops to / (fig.) to move to / to shift to
 fān yún fù yǔ to produce clouds with one turn of the hand and rain with another (idiom) / fig. to shift one's ground / tricky and inconstant / to make love
 jià huò to impute / to shift the blame onto someone else
 shǒu dòng dǎng manual gear change / shift stick
 dāng bān to work one's shift
 huàn bān to change shift / the next work shift / to relieve (a workman on the previous shift) / to take over the job
 lún bān shift working
 zǎo bān early shift / morning work shift
 jiāo jiē bān to change shift
 bái bān day shift
 dǎo shǒu to shift from one hand to the other / to change hands (of merchandise)
 biàn sù gǎn gear lever / stick shift
 bān team / class / squad / work shift / ranking / CL:個|个[ge4] / classifier for groups of people and scheduled transport vehicles
 rì bān day shift
 bái bān r day shift
 hóng yí red shift (astronomy)
 èr bù zhì two shift system (in schools)
 yǐ lín wéi hè to use one's neighbor as a drain / to shift one's problems onto others (idiom)
 dǎo xiū to shift holidays, taking a weekday off
 yì zhù to shift resources into areas of need / to inject funds / to balance resources
 bān chū qù to move out (vacate) / to shift sth out
 guā dài a changeover of personnel / a new shift / (lit.) replacement for soldier on leave for the melon-picking season
 yí qíng bié liàn change of affection, shift of love (idiom) / to change one's feelings to another love / to fall in love with sb else
 lán yí blue shift (astronomy)
线 zhuǎn yí shì xiàn to shift one's eyes / (fig.) to shift one's attention / to divert attention
 zhuǎn biàn lì chǎng to change positions / to shift one's ground
  shift system
 jī zhǔn biàn huàn datum shift / datum transformation / geodetic transformation / datum conversion / datum reduction
  interindustry shift
 tiáo dǎng gear shift
 liáo bèi to provide as expedient / to use temporarily as / to make shift
 shuǎi guō (Internet slang) to shift the blame / to pass the buck
 xiè zé to avoid responsibility / to shift the responsibility onto others / (Tw) to relieve sb of their responsibilities (e.g. upon retirement)
 zǎo zǎo bān preschool group for kids aged three or less / (Tw) work shift starting around daybreak
 qiào dòng to shift sth with a crowbar etc / (fig.) to influence by applying leverage
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