He stopped, shifting his cane to his left hand.

他停下来，把手杖移到左手。

To put it bluntly, this is shifting responsibility.

说穿了，无非是想推卸责任。

Maybe the ground vibrates, or maybe the ground itself is shifting, tilting.

也许是地面震动了，或者是地面本身在移动和倾斜。

Consumers' preferences were already shifting toward touch-screen smartphones.

消费者的偏好已经转向触屏智能手机。

But consumers' preferences were already shifting toward touch-screen smartphones.

但消费者的偏好已经转向触屏智能手机。

Earth's surface consists of rigid plates that are constantly shifting and jostling one another.

地球表面由不断移动和相互碰撞的刚性板块组成。

Underneath the Earth's crust, there are a number of shifting slabs or plates that are slowly moving.

在地壳下面，有许多移动的板块在缓慢移动。

They believe the data support an idea current among marine biologists, that of the "shifting baseline".

他们认为这些数据支持了海洋生物学家中流传的“基线移动”的观点。

We are therefore not talking about adapting to a new standard, but to a constantly shifting set of conditions.

因此，我们不是在谈论适应一个新标准，而是在谈论适应不断变化的情况。

Most of the money would come from a penny-per-letter permanent rate increase and from shifting postal retirees into Medicare.

大多数钱是通过提高每封信一便士的永久利率和将邮政退休员工转嫁到医保系统的方式筹集。

Caterpillar, a maker of vehicles that dig, pull or plough, is shifting some of its excavator production from abroad to Texas.

生产挖掘、牵引或犁地车辆的 Caterpillar 公司正将部分挖掘机从国外转移到德克萨斯州。

Three types of adjustable turning rolls: manual lead screw adjusting, manual bolt shifting and electric sliding plate shifting.

三种可调式滚轮架：手动丝杆可调式、手动螺栓移位式和电动滑板移位式。

It's called the Ring of Fire, a semicircle of violently shifting plates and volcanoes that runs along the edges of the Pacific Ocean.

这里被称为火圈带，一个由剧烈移动的板块和火山组成的半圆形区域，分布在太平洋沿岸。

There was frantic blame-shifting when everything in Asia seemed to be going wrong; now there is a race to claim credit when some things have started to go right.

当亚洲的一切似乎都出了问题时，就出现了疯狂推卸责任的现象；现在，当一些事情开始朝着好的方向发展时，就产生了一场争夺信誉的竞赛。

New sea walls would cost hundreds of millions of pounds and would merely make the waves and currents go further along the coast, shifting the problem from one area to another.

新的海堤将耗资数亿英镑，只能让海浪和洋流到达沿岸远一点的地方，把问题从一个地区转移到另一个地区。

The Croatian town of Ilok is a classic case of shifting populations.

伊洛卡的克罗地亚小镇就是人口不停流动的典型例子。

It's better to leave your listeners wishing for more than shifting restlessly in their seats waiting for your speech finally to end.

与其让听众在座位上坐立不安地等着你的演讲结束，还不如让他们有所期待。

In pre-Classical Greece, for instance, people "corrected" official calendars by shifting dates forward or backward to reflect the change of season.

例如，在前古典时期的希腊，人们通过前后移动日期来“修正”官方日历，以反映季节的变化。

There is stir and life, and shifting colour everywhere.

到处是活动和生气，到处是变幻的色彩。

Game theory is pressed into service in studies of shifting international alliances.

博弈论被用于研究不断变化的国际联盟。

Our research suggests it has something to do with shifting the body's internal clock.

我们的研究表明，这与改变人体内部的生物钟有关。

It's still in its early stages, but I think it's shifting around not what kids learn but how they learn.

它仍处于早期阶段，但我认为它正在改变的不是孩子们学习的对象，而是他们学习的方式。

The BIO recently held a convention which included sessions to coach lawyers on the shifting landscape for patents.

生物技术产业组织（BIO）最近召开了一个会议，其中部分议程就不断变化的专利领域向律师们提供了培训。

The constantly shifting Khumbu Icefall is like a bunch of ice cubes continually tumbling down the icy mountain wall.

持续变换的昆布冰川就像是一堆连续不断的从冰山墙上翻滚下来的冰块。

Mikoshi-nyudo's true identity is unknown, but in some areas, he is believed to be a shape-shifting weasel, fox or tanuki.

见越入道的真实身份仍是未知，但有些地区的人们相信他是由黄鼠狼，狐貍或貍变的。

The twin lights, the shifting grey and the steadfast red, mastered the Water Rat and held him bound, fascinated, powerless.

变幻莫测的灰色和坚定不变的红色，这两道光芒控制住了河鼠，使他处于动弹不得，痴痴迷迷，又无能为力的状态。

It could go a long way, he says, to shifting consumers as well as farmers towards a more sustainable system of agriculture.

他说，要让消费者和农民都转向更加可持续的农业体系，还有很长的路要走。

Shifting eating habits, including a sharp drop in consumption of sparkling drinks, have forced a radical change in the industry.

饮食习惯的改变，包括汽水消费量的大幅下降，迫使该行业发生了根本性的变化。

Architectural morphology is the study of how shifting cultural and environmental conditions produce changes in an architectural form.

建筑形态学是研究不断变化的文化和环境条件如何使建筑形式发生变化的学科。

Dependence on long-distance trade also meant that the great empires of the Middle East were built both literally and figuratively on shifting sand.

对长途贸易的依赖也意味着，伟大的中东帝国无论是实际上还是象征意义上，都是建立在流沙之上的。