millstone

英 [ˈmɪlstəʊn]

美 [ˈmɪlstoʊn]

n.  磨石; 磨盘

复数：millstones　

BNC.21046 / COCA.29411

习惯用语

n.

a millstone around/round your neck
• 难以摆脱的沉重负担
  a difficult problem or responsibility that it seems impossible to solve or get rid of
• My debts are a millstone around my neck.
  债务成了我难以摆脱的负担。

牛津词典

noun

• 磨石；磨盘
  one of two flat round stones used, especially in the past, to crush grain to make flour

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。

英英释义

noun

• one of a pair of heavy flat disk-shaped stones that are rotated against one another to grind the grain
• any load that is difficult to carry
• (figurative) something that hinders or handicaps
  1. she was an albatross around his neck
  Synonym:albatross

双语例句

• The job had been a millstone around her neck.
  这份工作是套在她脖子上的沉重负担。
• And as she went out the door, crash! the bird threw the millstone on her head, and it crushed her to death.
  她刚一出去，小鸟把磨石扔到了她的头上，将她砸得粉碎。
• Her lazy husband is a millstone round her neck.
  她的懒丈夫成了她的一个包袱。
• It were better for him that a millstone were hanged about his neck, and he cast into the sea, than that he should offend one of these little ones.
  就是把磨石拴在这人的颈项上、丢在海里、还强如他把这小子里的一个绊倒了。
• But if anyone causes one of these little ones who believe in me to sin, it would be better for him to have a large millstone hung around his neck and to be drowned in the depths of the sea.
  凡使这信我的一个小子跌倒的，倒不如把大磨石拴在这人的颈项上，沉在深海里。
• This jobis a millstone around my neck.
  这个工作简直对我是一种负担。
• He's between the upper and nether millstone.
  他深受上下夹攻。
• If the grain of millet beneath the millstone had thoughts, it would, doubtless, think that same thing which Jean Valjean thought.
  假使磨盘底下的黍粒有思维的能力，它所想的也许就是冉阿让所想的了。
• That contract proved to be a millstone around his neck.
  那个合同结果成了他的一个负担。
• And a certain woman cast a piece of a millstone upon Abimelech's head, and all to brake his skull.
  有一个妇人把一块上磨石抛在亚比米勒的头上，打破了他的脑骨。