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V-ERG
(使)移动;(使)挪动;(使)转移
If you shift something or if it shifts, it moves slightly.
例句
He stopped, shifting his cane to his left hand...
他停了下来，将手杖移到左手。
He shifted from foot to foot...
他从一只脚换到另一只脚。
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V-ERG
(意见、情况、政策)有所变动，稍作改变;使发生些许变化
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...
最近几年对精神病的态度已有所改变。
The emphasis should be shifted more towards Parliament.
重点应更多地转向议会。
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VERB
推卸，推诿，转嫁(责任)
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...
试图将谋杀的罪责转嫁给他人是徒劳的。
Their husbands try to shift the blame by accusing them of having 'suspicious minds'.
她们的丈夫指责她们“疑心太重”，试图以此来推诿责任。
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VERB
销售，出售(滞销商品)
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.
一些供应商赔本销售存货。
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VERB
换(车挡);变(车速)
If you shift gears in a car, you put the car into a different gear.
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N-COUNT
轮班;当班时间;轮班职工
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.
他父亲是一家炼钢厂的轮班工人。
...workers coming home from the afternoon shift...
上完下午班回家的工人们