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millstone
英['mɪlstəʊn] 美['mɪlstoʊn]
单词基本解释
n.磨石;重担
英英释义
Noun:
  1. (figurative) something that hinders or handicaps;

    "she was an albatross around his neck"

  2. any load that is difficult to carry

  3. one of a pair of heavy flat disk-shaped stones that are rotated against one another to grind the grain

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用作名词(n.)
  1. He is picking the surface of a millstone.
    他正在凿磨石面。
  2. Didn't a woman throw an upper millstone on him from the wall, so that he died in Thebez?
    岂不是一个妇人从城上抛下一块上磨石来,打在他身上,他就死在提备斯吗?
  3. His son is a millstone around his neck.
    他的儿子是他的重担。
经典引文
  • 109 Holden Road was a millstone rather than an asset.

    出自:F. Weldon
  • The problems of Ethiopia and its hapless peoples, caught between the millstones of natural disaster and international politics.

    出自:B. Geldof
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