Grindstone
[ ['graindstəun] ]
出国 Abroad
n. 磨石, 砂轮, 石磨\\n[机] 磨石
📝 例句
Come on now... buck up... face the music... nose to the grindstone .
好了,好了,振作起来,鼓起勇气,埋头工作。
The teacher believed in hard work and always kept our noses to the grindstone.
老师提倡勤奋,而且也总是要我们埋头读书。
To keep one's nose to the grindstone
使之劳动不息
He sharpened the edge of his knife on a grindstone.
他在磨石上磨快了他的刀刃。
He's got to keep his nose to the grindstone to feed his six children.
他得一刻不停拼命做才能养活他那六个孩子。
✅ 同义词
📖 牛津释义
grindstone
n
1 stone shaped like a wheel, turned on an axle, against which one holds knives or other tools to sharpen them 砂轮.
2 (idm 习语) keep one's/sb's nose to the grindstone => nose1.
🗣️ 情景例句
I'm heading off for bed
我先去睡觉了
We'll start with an orientation video. It runs about 15 minutes.
我们将从一个电视简报开始，大概放15分钟。
The only way that they can preserve their history is to recount it as sagas -- legends handed down from one generation of another.These legends are useful because they can tell us something about migrations of people who lived long ago, but none could wri
他们保存历史的唯一办法是将历史当作传说讲述，由讲述人一代接一代地将史实描述为传奇故事口传下来。