millstones
n.
磨( millstone的名词复数 );
磨石;
粉碎器;
重担;
例句:
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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. ”
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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.
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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.
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The...words meshed with each other like oiled millstones ground to a fine fit.
来自J. Kosinski
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The problems of Ethiopia and its hapless peoples, caught between the millstones of natural disaster and international politics.
来自B. Geldof
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There had been quarries around here, from which many of the country's millstones came.
来自NEWYORKER