millstone
英 [ˈmɪlstəʊn]
美 [ˈmɪlstoʊn]
n. 磨石; 磨盘
复数:millstones
BNC.21046 / COCA.29411
习惯用语
n.
- a millstone around/round your neck
- 难以摆脱的沉重负担
a difficult problem or responsibility that it seems impossible to solve or get rid of - My debts are a millstone around my neck.
债务成了我难以摆脱的负担。
牛津词典
noun
- 磨石;磨盘
one of two flat round stones used, especially in the past, to crush grain to make flour
柯林斯词典
- 磨石;磨盘
Amillstoneis a large, flat, round stone which is one of a pair of stones used to grind grain into flour. - PHRASE 重担;重负;累赘
If you describe something asa millstoneora millstone aroundyourneck, you mean that it is a very unpleasant problem or responsibility that you cannot escape from.- For today's politicians, the treaty is becoming a millstone...
对于今天的政客而言,这个条约正在变成一个包袱。 - That contract proved to be a millstone around his neck.
那个合同结果成了他的一个负担。
- For today's politicians, the treaty is becoming a millstone...
英英释义
noun
- one of a pair of heavy flat disk-shaped stones that are rotated against one another to grind the grain
- any load that is difficult to carry
- (figurative) something that hinders or handicaps
- she was an albatross around his neck
双语例句
- Opening the sacks and keeping an eye on the millstone crushing the corn.
打开麻袋,守着石磨碾碎玉米的一番情景。 - The job had been a millstone around her neck.
这份工作是套在她脖子上的沉重负担。 - I can see into a millstone, as the saying is.
我正如俗语所说的一般能够洞察石磨。 - This jobis a millstone around my neck.
这个工作简直对我是一种负担。 - But if anyone causes one of these little ones who believe in me to sin, it would be better for him to have a large millstone hung around his neck and to be drowned in the depths of the sea.
凡使这信我的一个小子跌倒的,倒不如把大磨石拴在这人的颈项上,沉在深海里。 - That mortgage has been like a millstone round my neck.
那笔抵押借款像是套在我脖子上的沉重负担。 - Nor shall you take as a pledge any person's life, for to do so is to take upon yourself both a mill and a millstone.
你也不需要对任何人的生活做保证,因为这样只不过是让你自己徒增磨难和重担。 - A golden bird takes wing with a chain in one claw, red slippers in the other, and a millstone round its neck.
只金色鸟儿展翅翱翔,一只脚抓着金链子,另一只脚抓着红色拖鞋,脖子上还挂着磨石。 - Broad scope of application cowboy cotton fabrics, tweed fabrics, cotton fabrics, can produce light gather different millstone, and faded to hair polishing.
适用范围广泛应用于牛仔棉织物、斜纹织物、轻聚棉织物等可产生不同的磨石、去毛抛光及褪色等。 - For today's politicians, the treaty is becoming a millstone
对于今天的政客而言,这个条约正在变成一个包袱。