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 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！
• For that, the imperialists were determined to grind Libya down.
  为此，帝国主义被确定下来磨利比亚。
• 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。
• In2011, I hope that Spurs continue to grind out results against the teams that historically we find hard to break down.
  2011年，我希望热刺能够面对一些强队打出历史性的好成绩。
• 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。
• There's a way to actually grind down and prepare the flour, so that you promote the enzymes within the plant to breakdown the cyanide precursors.
  有一种方法是将它们磨碎，做成粉，这样就可以促进它们本身带有，酶将氰化物的前驱体分解掉。
• "Is the grain for bread crushed? He does not go on crushing it for ever, but he lets his cart-wheels and his horses go over it without crushing it." Roll grinder a special lathe used to grind down or resurface rubber applicator rolls.
  作饼的粮食是用磨磨碎，因它不必常打。虽用碌碡和马打散，却不磨它。辊子打磨&特殊的车床用来磨去和涂布辊的表面。
• It won't grind down any finer than this.
  不能磨的比这个再细了。
• Heavy taxes grind us down.
  我们受重税的压榨。