Grindstone

(noun.) a revolving stone shaped like a disk; used to grind or sharpen or polish edge tools.

校对:卡特里娜

• 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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