millstone

英 ['mɪlstəʊn] 美 ['mɪlstoʊn]

• 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

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。

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

词汇搭配

• between the upper and nether millstone 在上下两片磨石之间,...
• a millstone round one's neck 套在身上的沉重负担...
• fix a millstone about one's neck 把磨石套在脖子上...
• millstone grit 磨石砂砾
• millstone mill 磨石碾磨机,盘磨,石...
• bottom millstone [机] 底石, 底梁...
• upper millstone 上磨盘
• a millstone about one's neck 重大的责任
• see into a millstone 眼光锐利(明察秋毫)...
• millstone cutter 磨盘上的刻槽...
• hang a millstone round one's neck 把磨石套在脖子上...
• have a millstone about one's neck 把磨石套在脖子上...
• fix a millstone round one's neck 把磨石套在脖子上...
• have a millstone round one's neck 把磨石套在脖子上...
• hard as the nether millstone 冷酷无情的
• as hard as the nether millstone 铁石心肠的
• look into a millstone 具有特殊的洞察力,有...
• see through a millstone 眼光锐利(明察秋毫)...
• look through a millstone 明察秋毫

近反义词

【近义词】

• weight 重量
• albatross 信天翁
• burden 负担
• dead weight 静负载
• load 负荷
• shackle 手铐
• abrasive 磨料
• oppression 压抑
• chain 束缚
• responsibility 责任