millstone 的定义
- either of a pair of circular stones between which grain or another substance is ground, as in a mill.
- anything that grinds or crushes.
- any heavy mental or emotional burden.
millstone 近义词
burden
更多millstone例句
- Unlike in the 1990s, the Taliban no longer have a millstone around their neck in the form of Osama bin Laden, the terrorist mastermind and wealthy Saudi financier who effectively bought his sanctuary in Afghanistan by bankrolling the group.
- But the challenge of Europe is to accept a connection to a millstone that has the financial world teetering.
- But all of this dubious wealth has become a millstone for the Swiss.
- Take a millstone and grind meal: uncover thy shame, strip thy shoulder, make bare thy legs, pass over the rivers.
- In other respects—never having been appealed to by love—it was as hard as a small millstone.
- He owed them money, which at present he could not pay; his undischarged “debts of honour” hung like a millstone round his neck.
- It was a thin slab, roughly circular in shape; not unlike what one might suppose a millstone to be in the rough.
- I soon found he was a regular millstone round my neck—particularly when we were on the “walk-about.”