millstones

英 [ˈmɪlstəʊnz]

美 [ˈmɪlˌstoʊnz]

n.  磨石; 磨盘
millstone的复数

柯林斯词典

• 磨石；磨盘
  Amillstoneis 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 asa millstoneora millstone aroundyourneck, you mean that it is a very unpleasant problem or responsibility that you cannot escape from.
  1. 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。
  2. That contract proved to be a millstone around his neck.
     那个合同结果成了他的一个负担。

双语例句

• Application of Wear-resisting Ductile Iron in Pulp Millstones
  耐磨球铁在纸浆磨盘上的应用
• Millstones grind up cereals into powders. Sieve out the coarse grains. Then the real flour food appears.
  石磨将谷物研成粉末，再用筛过滤掉粗粒杂质，真正意义上的面食才得以出现。
• Do not take a pair of millstones not even the upper one as security for a debt, because that would be taking a man's livelihood as security.
  不可拿人的全盘磨石或是上磨石作当头，因为这是拿人的命作当头。
• Today, millstones of the same shape are still being used.
  至今同一形制的磨盘还在使用。
• The sails had kept turning, but the millstones had nothing to grind.
  还有风车翼的叽嘎声，以及磨坊主人的叫喊声。风车翼虽仍继续转动，但石磨却没东西可磨。
• Nowadays, the low life of millstones cannot satisfy the need of the enterprises, and therefore restricts the development of the paper making industry.
  目前极低的磨盘寿命无法满足我国造纸工业蓬勃发展的需求，成为造纸工业技术提高的瓶颈。
• Take the millstones, and grind meal: uncover thy locks, make bare the leg, uncover the thigh, pass over the rivers.
  你要拿石磨去磨面，你要揭开你的帕子，脱去长裙，露出大腿，渡过江河。
• 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。
• Experiment results indicate that the factors affecting the polishing efficiency are millstones granularity, speed, pressure and the area.
  采用较大粒度的磨盘，适当增加转速和压力有利于提高抛光的效率。
• When these poor creatures grow to be men, the millstones of the social order meet them and crush them, but so long as they are children, they escape because of their smallness.
  这种可怜的小把戏，一旦成了人，几乎总要遭受社会秩序这个磨盘的碾压，但是，只要他们还是孩子，个儿小，就可以逃过。