意:a change in something, for example in someone’s ideas or opinions.
例:There has been a marked shift in attitude towards how to ask questions in the Phenomenal English community.
Shift: 作动词/名词,均可表示观点、态度、聚焦点的变化。名词/动词词性改变,可以增强表达的多样性。
例:Attitudes to homosexuality have shifted in recent years.
= Recent years have seen a shift in attitudes to homosexuality.
常用搭配:
a shift in attitude;
a shift in public opinion/perspective;
a shift in emphasis/mood/tone;
a shift in direction/focus/strategy/policy
例:With the gloomy economy comes a shift in personal financial focus: people are more careful about spending and tend to spend promarily on truly necessary items. (正常语序: a shift comes in personal financial focus with the gloomy economy)
例:Alphabet has confronted worrisome transitions before, such as the shift from desktop PCs to mobile. Its ad business is still booming, because it devised a way to deliver ads on small screens. it is possible that google’s ad model could in future shift to taking a fee for each transaction in facilitates.
作业:
3)Chinese economy undergoes a shift from labor-intensive model to intelligent-intensive model.
4) 场景:经历了工作上一系列不公平对待后,他的工作态度从积极转变为消极。
造句:after he has undergone some unequal treatments in career, there is a shift in work attitude from positive to negetive.