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graveyard shift

夜班,墓地班,坟场班

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n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : a work shift usually beginning at about midnight and continuing for about eight hours through the early morning hours.
    • : those who work this shift.

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Examples

  • So there is a small cohort of officers who like it, who opt for the graveyard shift.

  • So when you come out of the academy, go through your field training, you then get assigned to whatever shift needs you, and that’s predominantly the graveyard shift.

  • Some days I was too exhausted after working a graveyard shift to get to class.

  • Do you think that as we get older our thoughts shift to the more abstract, the music, than the definite, the lyrics?

  • As Sutton shows in his book, the important shift took place gradually, from the end of the Civil War until World War II.

  • Most other social justice movements are seeking some shift of power and money.

  • Another beautiful Eminor number, with a nice shift up to the major for the chorus.

  • And Asians also showed a shift toward the GOP in the mid-terms.

  • In 1763 the chapel was enlarged, and at the same time a little more land was added to the graveyard.

  • The question was put rather testily and caused the other to shift uncomfortably before making answer.

  • I made a short cut across the graveyard of Saint Francis, or I must have met the escort.

  • The night shift had clocked in over an hour ago, and there should be no passing through the gate for at least six hours.

  • So that we were compelled to remain all the next day at the anchorage to shift them.