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wring.erHrIN7E5, $-Ln [C]A wringer (also mangle) is a machine used, esp. in the past, for pressing water out of clothes by putting the clothes between two heavy rollers which are turned by hand.衣服脱水机A large cast-iron clothes wringer stood in a corner of the kichen.厨房的一个角落里竖着一台大型铸铁衣服脱水机。(infml) If you put someone through the wringer, you ask them difficult or unpleasant questions, esp. to find out whether they are doing their job satisfactorily.(尤指为检查工作而)提出困难的或令人不快的问题, 使历尽艰辛The committee really put our department through the wringer--investigating our procedures and questioning students and staff.这个委员会真对我们系刨根究底查了一番----调查办事手续, 并询问学生与教职员工。Outside investigators will put the company's accounting practices through the wringer.外来的调查者将会对这家公司的会计工作彻底调查。
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