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小词详解 | tenure
tenure 英 [ˈtenjə(r)] 美 [ˈtenjər]
In America at least, average job tenures have barely changed in recent decades.
至少在美国,近几十年来,平均任职时间几乎并无变化。
——《纽约时报》Mrs. Thatcher’s 11-year tenure had much in common with Liverpool’s, both in its length and its attitudes toward organized labor.
撒切尔夫人在11年的首相生涯中,从其任期长度和对待有组织工人的态度上,都与利物浦勋爵相似。
——《纽约时报》
[名词] 任职期间
居住权得不到保证是许多家庭居无定所的一个原因。
Lack of security of tenure was a reason for many families becoming homeless.
布什总统的八年任期
the eight-year tenure of President Bush她知道自己与显赫的政治职位无缘。
She knew that tenure of high political office was beyond her.
要取得终身职位仍然极其困难。
It's still extremely difficult to get tenure.经过三年的试用,委员会授予她终身职位。
After three years on probation, the committee tenured her.
作为一个没有永久职位的助理教授,她在学院里表现很高调。
Her profile in the college is unusually high for an untenured assistant professor.
A life of action and danger moderates the dread of death. It not only gives us fortitude to bear pain, but teaches us at every step the precarious tenure on which we hold our present being.
充满行动和危险的生活将减缓对死亡的恐惧。它不仅赋予我们承受痛苦的刚毅,而且时刻引导我们把握飘忽不定的现在。
incumbency: the holding of an office or the period during which one is held term: a fixed or limited period for which something, e.g., office, imprisonment, or investment, lasts or is intended to last stint: a person's fixed or allotted period of work