His father worked shifts in a steel mill.

他的父亲在一家钢铁厂轮班工作。

The main axis of the planet's orbital ellipse shifts each time when it goes around the sun.

当行星绕太阳运行时，其轨道椭圆的主轴每次都会改变。

As she speaks, her emotional gaze shifts from the ground, to my eyes, to the moonlit sky, to the ground, and back to my eyes again.

当她说话时，她那满溢着情感的凝视的目光从地面移至我的双眼，移至月光闪耀的天空，移至地面，又回到我的双眼。

I work split shifts in a busy restaurant.

我在一家繁忙的餐馆上间隔班。

He seemed to be signalling important shifts in U.S. government policy.

他似乎在表示美国政府的政策将会有些重大变化。

Often it shifts to a submissive posture too.

通常它也会转变成一种顺从的姿态。

Why such subtle shifts make some people depressed and not others is a mystery.

为什么这种微妙的变化会让某一些人感到沮丧，而另一些人却没有，这仍然是个谜。

Small disruptions create small societal shifts; big ones change things for good.

小的干扰会造成小的社会变化；大的干扰会对事物造成永久性的变化。

Of course, that doesn't control the cost of education! It just shifts it to taxpayers.

当然，这并不能控制教育成本！它只是将其转移给了纳税人。

As an indicator of shifts in the Earth's climate, the isotope record has two advantages.

作为地球气候变化的指标，同位素记录有两个优势。

Considering that other climate shifts take thousands of years, this one is pretty abrupt.

考虑到其他的气候变化会需要数千年，这次的变化就相当突然了。

It's more constructive to think of solutions that continue to evolve over shifts in life and work.

更具建设性的做法是，思考随生活和工作转变而不断变化发展的解决方案。

Any leader who is quickly and easily influenced by shifts in popular opinion will accomplish little.

那些很轻易地就被公众意见的转变而影响的领导者将一事无成。

It is sometimes required that we work overtime and that we change shifts four or five times a month.

有时我们需要加班，一个月要换班四到五次。

Transitions should connect one paragraph to the next so that there are no abrupt or confusing shifts.

过渡应该将一个段落与下一个段落连接起来，这样才不会出现生硬或混乱的转换。

Those shifts have yet to be reflected in record obesity levels, which stand at 36.5% overall in the US.

这些变化尚未影响到现有记录的肥胖水平，美国总体的最高肥胖率为36.5％。

A mobile may look simple as it shifts in the wind, but it requires careful construction to work properly.

风铃随风摆动，这看上去可能很简单，但需要精巧的构造才能正常运作。

But those shifts have yet to be reflected in record obesity levels, which stand at 36.5% overall in the US.

但是这些变化尚未影响到最高肥胖水平，而美国的总体肥胖最高水平为36.5％。

Nokia's board resisted change, making it impossible for the company to adapt to rapid shifts in the industry.

诺基亚董事会拒绝做出改变，这使得该公司不可能适应行业的快速变化。

These extreme shifts would have put a lot of stress on the bodies of animals that were used to a more moderate range of temperatures.

对于已经习惯较为温和的温度范围的动物来说，这些极端变化会给它们的身体带来很大压力。

What this study suggests is that the speed of climate shifts and the magnitude of the changes required to adapt could be much greater.

这项研究表明，气候变化的速度和适应气候变化所需的改变幅度可能要大得多。

It was not a time of uniform warmth, for then, as always since the Great Ice Age, there were constant shifts in rainfall and temperature.

那并不是一个始终温暖的时期，因为在那时跟大冰期以来的任何时候都一样，降雨量和温度都在不断变化。

Shifts in forest species composition ramify through the ecosystem in many ways because tree species have different, often unique properties.

由于树种具有不同的、往往是独特的特性，森林物种组成的变化以多种方式影响着生态系统。

While there are numerous factors behind these shifts, one factor is surely a growing realization for the young that they are going to live longer.

虽然这些变化背后有许多因素，但可以肯定的是其中一个因素是年轻人越发意识到他们将活得更久。

This book is a narrative history of climatic shifts during the past ten centuries, and some of the ways in which people in Europe adapted to them.

这本书讲述了在过去十个世纪中气候变化的历史，以及欧洲人适应气候变化的一些方式。

The burger business faces more pressure from regulators at a time when it is already adapting strategies in response to shifts in the global economy.

在汉堡产业已经在调整战略以应对全球经济变化之际，它还面临着来自监管机构的更多压力。

This, along with other policy shifts toward free trade, resulted in a significant increase in traffic through the Sound and in the port of Copenhagen.

这一点加上其他转向自由贸易的政策，导致通过海峡和哥本哈根港口的交通流量显著增加。

The climatic changes in southwestern Asia were more subtle, in that they involved shifts in mountain snow lines, rainfall patterns, and vegetation cover.

亚洲西南部的气候变化更为微妙，因为它们涉及到山地雪线、降雨模式和植被覆盖率的变化。

This book will provide a detailed examination of the Little Ice Age and other climatic shifts, but, before I embark on that, let me provide a historical context.

"这本书将详细地介绍有关小冰河时期和其它气候变化的研究过程，但是，在我开始之前，让我先介绍一下历史背景。