0 to move a train or carriage onto a different track in or near a station using a special railway engine designed for this purpose -- 使(火車或車廂)轉轍
1 to move someone or something from one place to another, usually because that person or thing is not wanted, and without considering any unpleasant effects -- 把…轉至,調往(另一地方)
I spent most of my childhood being shunted (about) between my parents who had divorced when I was five. 我五歲時父母離異,童年的大部分時間都在離婚的父母之間輾轉。
He shunts his kids off to a camp every summer. 他每年夏天都送孩子們去參加夏令營。
Viewers are sick of their favourite sitcoms being shunted to later times to make way for live sports coverage. 因現場直播體育比賽而把深受觀眾喜愛的情景喜劇往後順延,許多人對此表示不滿。
2 a hole or passage that allows liquid to move from one part of the body to another, either found naturally in the body or put into the body in an operation -- (身體不同部分之間自然或通過手術開啟的可讓液體流動)的通路
Although vasodilatation may improve peripheral blood flow, it may also cause shunting which can result in regional tissue hypoxia.
Furthermore, serum amylase was elevated significantly only in the piglets with left-to-right shunts.
One month later, cardiac catheterization showed a substantial left-to-right shunt across the ventricular septal defect, with improvement in the size of the pulmonary arteries.
There was a right-to-left shunt through an atrial septal defect within the oval fossa and a left-to-right shunt through a patent arterial duct.
They were evaluated for residual ductal murmur, residual ductal shunt and presence of puhnonaryaonic obstruction.
Only yesterday the fast track was one of the hottest nouns in chicspeak, until it was shunted aside and passed by the fast lane.
The late mortality is usually due to occlusion of the shunts, which is normally independent of the underlying cardiac lesion.
One tiny residual shunt is still patent (4 weeks follow-up).