millstones的中文翻译是什么意思
millstones
n. 磨( millstone的名词复数 ); 磨石; 粉碎器; 重担
millstones的柯林斯释义
N-COUNT磨石；磨盘
A millstone is 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 as a millstone or a millstone around your neck, 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。
millstones的场景例句
But the dead men, sir, hang about your neck like millstones.'
不过, 先生, 那些死人会像磨盘一样吊在你脖子上的. ”
Millstones had been cut and laboriously sledged down the rough mountainsides.
石磨被琢好,然后费力用雪橇运下那崎岖不平的山坡.
The sails had kept turning, but the millstones had nothing to grind.
风车翼虽仍继续转动, 但石磨却没东西可磨.
Young men toil at the millstones; boys stagger under loads of wood.
少年人扛磨石, 孩童背木柴,都绊跌了.
The two pairs of millstones are fed with grain by the hoppers.
从料斗里顺下来的谷物被送进磨石.