millstone

 
['mɪlstəʊn]     ['mɪlstoʊn]    
  • n. 磨石;重擔
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millstone的英文翻譯是什麼意思,詞典釋義與在線翻譯:

英英釋義

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

millstone的用法和樣例:

例句

用作名詞 (n.)
  1. He is picking the surface of a millstone.
    他正在鑿磨石面。
  2. Didn't a woman throw an upper millstone on him from the wall, so that he died in Thebez?
    豈不是一個婦人從城上拋下一塊上磨石來,打在他身上,他就死在提備斯嗎?
  3. His son is a millstone around his neck.
    他的兒子是他的重擔。

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經典引文

  • 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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