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
Why did you stop working?
你为什么要退休？
What's the weather like today?
今天天气如何？
that I was a new boy in a huge school, and I would have been very pleased to be regarded as something so interesting as a problem.
我是一所大学里的一名新生，如果我当时真的被看成像一个问题那样有趣，我会感到很得意的。