Слово "shift". Англо-русский словарь Мюллера

  I asked him then what he called it, and again his eyes shifted away from me in his old wrinkled face in that queer way country folk have of not speaking to you direct, looking over your shoulder or round the corner, as it were, as though they saw something you didn't; and he said:  

I know, but I felt like taking a shift.

Miss Lee came in with another kind of bucket. Conversation shifted to a comparison of buckets or plastic pails as most suitable for the sport of bobbing for apples.

He shifted his weight from foot to foot, but it was equally uncomfortable on each.

"This is the day you go on the early shift," said Mildred. "You should have gone two hours ago.

Tom's breath was nearly failing him; but he made shift to stammer out--

The black boys on the evening shift who supervised the usual Tuesday and Thursday evening showers had learned it was easier to leave it go like this, and they didn’t force him to do any different.

Her sister carried with her most of the grimness of shift and toil.

"This is the day you go on the early shift," said Mildred. "You should have gone two hours ago.

But I have a veil—it is down: I may make shift yet to behave with decent composure.

This shift was a skirt with bib and price convinced me it must be dressy.

He was agitated; in his hands he was holding Margarita Nikolaevna's shift and his own hat and briefcase.

In the bright glare of the strongest street lights he saw, just below him on the sidewalk, a lady in nothing but a shift and violet bloomers.

Kohler coughed and shifted in his chair.

The commotion caused the circle of eyes to shift restlessly for a moment and even to withdraw a bit, but it settled down again as the dogs became quiet.

This did not seem to encourage the witness at all: he kept shifting from one foot to the other, looking uneasily at the Queen, and in his confusion he bit a large piece out of his teacup instead of the bread-and-butter.

It would have been too complicated to reverse all the numbers, so he had probably shifted the seasons around.

Our perception of what physics is needs a bit of a shift.

''Far out to come in when the wind shifts.

''Far out to come in when the wind shifts.

that shift the planet from being our best resilient friend, dampening our impacts,

But when I tried to speak I realized I couldn't; the words shifted aimlessly about in my mind.

He had forgotten how to shift for himself.

Planchet slept in the antechamber upon a coverlet taken from the bed of d'Artagnan, and which d'Artagnan from that time made shift to do without.

But they discovered the danger in time, and made shift to avert it.

Listen, you gotta double-pump the clutch when you shift,