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

• A strong yen and competition from lower-cost manufacturers elsewhere in Asia have turned the products that once underpinned their success into financial millstones.
  日元强势以及来自亚洲其他国家低成本制造商的竞争，让一度支持它们取得成功的产品成为财务上的重担。
• A coarse hard sandstone used for making grindstones and millstones. pumpellyite-prehnite-quartz facies
  砂石一种用来做磨石或石磨的粗而硬的砂石绿纤石－葡萄石－石英相
• The life of the millstones is a crucial in the paper making field, which has an effect on the state of the product line, product efficiency, enterprise profit and product quality.
  造纸机械中的磨浆机磨盘寿命高低是决定整个造纸生产线运行状态、生产效率、企业利润和产品质量的关键因素。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• Casting Process for Heavy Gear Ring of Raw Material Millstones Used for Cement Plant
  水泥厂原料磨大齿圈铸造技术
• Millstones-The mutual converse of human society.
  磨石－会上人与人之间彼此的交流。
• The tools introduced include drill, millstones, reamer, grinding head, grinding wheel, grinding shaft.
  主要介绍的工具有：钻咀（头）、磨盘、铰刀、磨头、磨轮、磨轴。
• 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。