Grindstone
['graɪn(d)stəʊn] or ['ɡraɪndston]
解释:
(noun.) a revolving stone shaped like a disk; used to grind or sharpen or polish edge tools.
校对:卡特里娜--From WordNet
解释:
(n.) A flat, circular stone, revolving on an axle, for grinding or sharpening tools, or shaping or smoothing objects.
校对:维托
娱乐性解释：
For a person to dream of turning a grindstone, his dream is prophetic of a life of energy and well directed efforts bringing handsome competency. If you are sharpening tools, you will be blessed with a worthy helpmate. To deal in grindstones, is significant of small but honest gain.
布雷特整理
例句:
- In the meanwhile let it be fully understood that I shall not neglect bringing the grindstone to bear, nor yet bringing Dusty Boffin's nose to it. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 我们共同的朋友.
- A man may, if he knows not how to save as he gets, keep his nose all his life to the grindstone, and die not worth a groat at last. 本杰明·富兰克林. 富兰克林自传.
- Would ten to-morrow morning suit you, partner, for finally bringing Boffin's nose to the grindstone? 查尔斯·狄更斯. 我们共同的朋友.
- And his nose shall be put to the grindstone for it. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 我们共同的朋友.
- I told you she took everything, herself included, to a grindstone, and sharpened it. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 大卫·科波菲尔.
- She brings everything to a grindstone,' said Steerforth, and sharpens it, as she has sharpened her own face and figure these years past. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 大卫·科波菲尔.
- The great grindstone, Earth, had turned when Mr. Lorry looked out again, and the sun was red on the courtyard. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 双城记.
- To put his nose to the grindstone? 查尔斯·狄更斯. 我们共同的朋友.
- She felt as if her senses were being whetted on some fine grindstone, that was keen as flame. 戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯. 恋爱中的女人.
- But, the lesser grindstone stood alone there in the calm morning air, with a red upon it that the sun had never given, and would never take away. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 双城记.
- And for that, too, his nose shall be put to the grindstone. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 我们共同的朋友.
- Now she was driven up against his perfect sleeping motion like a knife white-hot on a grindstone. 戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯. 恋爱中的女人.
- Twice more in the darkness the bell at the great gate sounded, and the irruption was repeated, and the grindstone whirled and spluttered. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 双城记.
- For the dressing of the faces of grindstones, special forms of cutting machines have been devised. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世纪发明.
- Shipments were growing larger, and materials like grindstones, bought outside, had to be brought from the canal to Ilion Gulph. 佚名. 神奇的知识之书.
- The power was taken from a water wheel in Steele’s Creek, and the first grindstones for smoothing down the welded edges in gun barrels were cut from a red sandstone ledge up the gorge. 佚名. 神奇的知识之书.
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