| 单词 | millstone |
| 释义 | millstoneWord family adjectivemillablemillednounmillermillingmillocracymillocratmillboardmilldammillhandmillpondmillracemillrindmillrunmillscalemillstonemillstreammilltailmillwheelmillworkmillworkermillwrightmill Mechanical mill·stone /ˈmɪlstəʊn $ -stoʊn/ noun [countableC] 1. TEMone of the two large circular stones that crush grain into flour in a mill 磨石；磨盘 2 a millstone round/around somebody’s neck PROBLEMsomething that causes a lot of problems for someone, and that they cannot get rid of 某人的沉重负担[累赘，包袱] Inflation is still a millstone round the neck of British businesses. 通货膨胀依然是英国企业的沉重包袱。 Examples from the Corpus a millstone round/around somebody’s neck• This particular heritage may be a millstone around the neck of scientific natural history. Examples from the Corpus millstone• This particular heritage may be a millstone around the neck of scientific natural history.• Paradoxically, Anthea now threatened to become a millstone to drag him down.• He could choreograph for the company that was coming to feel like a millstone, and he could tour.• It regulated the output but not the power of a millstone.• In the centre was inset yet another millstone seeded with yellow stone-crop.• These colonies are millstones around our necks, as a noble lord of my acquaintance once said.• Now the speculators have hit hard times and are desperately trying to off-load the cars which have become millstones around their necks.• At the mercy of this resentment, this hateful millstone envy of the Calibans of this world. |
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