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

• Heavy taxes grind us down.
  我们受重税的压榨。
• It won't grind down any finer than this.
  不能磨的比这个再细了。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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！