Millstone

['mɪlstəʊn] or ['mɪlston]

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

(noun.) any load that is difficult to carry.

艾玛手打--From WordNet

(n.) One of two circular stones used for grinding grain or other substance.

手打:波莱特

You see the millstone that he is about my neck. 查理斯·狄更斯. 大衛·科波菲爾.
A porochial 'prentis, who is at present a dead-weight; a millstone, as I may say, round the porochial throat? 查理斯·狄更斯. 霧都孤兒.
And really, there is no corn between the millstones any more. 大衛·赫伯特·勞倫斯. 戀愛中的女人.

編輯:雷金纳德