grind down

英 [ɡraɪnd daʊn]

美 [ɡraɪnd daʊn]

虐待; 折磨; 欺压

柯林斯词典

• PHRASAL VERB 虐待；折磨；欺压
  If you say that someonegrindsyoudown, you mean that they treat you very harshly and cruelly, reducing your confidence or your will to resist them.
  1. There are people who want to humiliate you and grind you down.
     有一些人会想要让你难堪，欺负你。

英英释义

verb

• rule a country as a tyrant
  Synonym:tyrannizetyrannise

双语例句

• They grind the bones down and make them into a traditional drink that is believed to increase strength.
  他们把骨头碾碎，做成一种据说可以强身健体的传统饮料。
• The daily grind of looking after three children was wearing her down.
  每天照看三个孩子的苦差事使她变得憔悴。
• The handbrake with asbestos-free brake linings must never be adjusted in such a way that the lining must grind down during operation!
  调节带有无石棉制动器摩擦衬片的驻车制动时，绝不能在操作过程中碾碎摩擦衬片！
• July numbers may have been boosted by the impending end of some tax rebates and weak June industrial production data suggest some factories are being mothballed to grind down stockpiles.
  7月份数据可能受到部分出口退税政策即将终止的提振，而6月份工业生产数据疲软，似乎表明部分工厂正在减产，以消化大量存货。
• The exploiting classes resort to every possible means to grind down and exploit the labouring people.
  剥削阶级用各种手段来压迫剥削劳动人民。
• Not to live in, and unhappily not to grind corn in, but to visit as the mood arose, and see the ships in the harbour from the topmost window, and look down on the sheep and the green world all around.
  但并不是真的住进去，而且说来遗憾，也不是进去磨点什么东西，只是兴致来时进去转了转，从它最顶的窗户遥望港口的船只，或者俯视周围的羊群和原野。
• There are people who want to humiliate you and grind you down.
  有一些人会想要让你难堪，欺负你。
• Roll grinder a special lathe used to grind down or resurface rubber applicator rolls.
  辊子打磨&特殊的车床用来磨去和涂布辊的表面。
• The "grind" and the "brightie" were looked down upon, a reflection of intellectual distrust on the part of parents.
  当时“苦钻书本的”和“脑子好使的”学生都受到蔑视，那是父母对知识不信任的一种反映。
• With a knife, you can split a feather down the middle and then grind the base down to the thickness you want.
  你可以用刀子沿着羽毛的中间将其劈开，然后把羽根打磨到你需要的厚度。