millstone
磨石,磨刀石,磨盘,碾石
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- : 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.
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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.”