mill-stone

英 ['mɪlst'əʊn] 美 ['mɪlst'əʊn]

• n. 石磨

英英释义

名词 millstone:

1. (figurative) something that hinders or handicaps

2. any load that is difficult to carry

3. one of a pair of heavy flat disk-shaped stones that are rotated against one another to grind the grain

例句

用作名词 (n.)

1. Each came from the country, from a peasant household, and had left her mill and calf, her sturdy young husband, to follow some other villager she knew to do business on this boat.
   她们从乡下来，从那些种田挖园的人家，离了乡村，离了石磨同小牛，离了那年青而强健的丈夫，跟随了一个同乡熟人，就来到这船上做生意了。