millstone

英['mɪlstəʊn] 美['mɪlstoʊn]
  • n. 磨石；重担
  • mill n.磨坊；工厂；磨粉机v.碾碎；磨；（使）乱转
  • millage n.厘计税率(按厘即0.001美元计算的每美元的税率)
  • millboard n.书面厚纸
  • millcake n.亚麻籽渣；亚麻籽饼
  • milldam n.水闸

详细释义

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

双语例句

1. That contract proved to be a millstone around his neck.
那个合同结果成了他的一个负担。

来自柯林斯例句

2. 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。

来自柯林斯例句

3. His lazy son is a millstone round his neck.
他那懒散的儿子是套在他身上的一个沉重负担.

来自辞典例句

4. 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.

来自辞典例句

5. His son is a millstone around [ about ] his neck.
他的儿子是他的重担((犹如系于他脖子上的 石磨 般沉重)).

来自辞典例句

    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。

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