millstone
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English 5++LDOCE 5++mill·stone /ˈmɪlstəʊn $ -stoʊn/ noun [countable] 1. TEMone of the two large circular stones that crush grain into flour in a mill 磨石；磨盘2 a millstone round/around somebody’s neck PROBLEMsomething that causes a lot of problems for someone, and that they cannot get rid of 某人的沉重负担[累赘，包袱] Inflation is still a millstone round the neck of British businesses. 通货膨胀依然是英国企业的沉重包袱。
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millstone• This particular heritage may be a millstone around the neck of scientific natural history.• Paradoxically, Anthea now threatened to become a millstone to drag him down.• He could choreograph for the company that was coming to feel like a millstone, and he could tour.• It regulated the output but not the power of a millstone.• In the centre was inset yet another millstone seeded with yellow stone-crop.• These colonies are millstones around our necks, as a noble lord of my acquaintance once said.• Now the speculators have hit hard times and are desperately trying to off-load the cars which have become millstones around their necks.• At the mercy of this resentment, this hateful millstone envy of the Calibans of this world.mill·stone nounChineseSyllable
two of circular large one stones the that Corpus
millstone
mill‧stone /ˈmɪlstəʊn $ -stoʊn/
noun [countable]
1. one of the two large circular stones that crush grain into flour in a mill
2. a millstone round/around sb’s neck something that causes a lot of problems for someone, and that they cannot get rid of:
Inflation is still a millstone round the neck of British businesses.
mill‧stone /ˈmɪlstəʊn $ -stoʊn/
noun [countable]1. one of the two large circular stones that crush grain into flour in a mill
2. a millstone round/around sb’s neck something that causes a lot of problems for someone, and that they cannot get rid of:
