英语词汇“millstone around our neck”的读音、翻译、释义、用法及例句-青年旅行网

millstone around (one's) neck

A heavy burden. I wish I hadn't bought that house—the mortgage is a millstone around my neck.

millstone around one's neck

A heavy burden, as in Julie finds Grandma, who is crabby, a millstone around her neck. The literal hanging of a millstone about the neck is mentioned as a punishment in the New Testament (Matthew 18:6), causing the miscreant to be drowned. Its present figurative use was first recorded in a history of the Quakers (c. 1720).

a millstone around your neck

BRITISH, AMERICAN or

a millstone round your neck

BRITISH

COMMON If something is a millstone around your neck or a millstone round your neck, it is a very unpleasant problem or responsibility that you cannot escape from. The country's inefficient telephone company has been a millstone round the government's neck. Long-term illness can make you feel like a millstone around your family's necks. Note: Millstone is often used on its own with this meaning. There is the continuing millstone of the country's enormous foreign debt. Note: A millstone is one of a pair of very heavy round flat stones which are used to grind grain. Jesus referred to children in Matthew 18:5 by saying, `Whoso shall offend one of these little ones which believe in me, it were better for him that a millstone were hanged about his neck and that he were drowned in the depth of the sea.'

a millstone round your neck

a very severe impediment or disadvantage.

A millstone was a large circular stone used to grind corn. The phrase alludes to a method of executing people by throwing them into deep water with a heavy stone attached to them, a fate believed to have been suffered by several early Christian martyrs.

a millstone around/round somebody’s ˈneck

something which limits your freedom or makes you worry: My debts are a millstone round my neck.A millstone is a very large heavy flat stone used to crush grain to make flour. This phrase refers to an old form of punishing people by tying a heavy stone around their necks and dropping them into deep water to drown.

词汇	millstone around our neck
释义	(redirected from millstone around our neck) millstone around (one's) neck A heavy burden. I wish I hadn't bought that house—the mortgage is a millstone around my neck. millstone around one's neck A heavy burden, as in Julie finds Grandma, who is crabby, a millstone around her neck. The literal hanging of a millstone about the neck is mentioned as a punishment in the New Testament (Matthew 18:6), causing the miscreant to be drowned. Its present figurative use was first recorded in a history of the Quakers (c. 1720). a millstone around your neck BRITISH, AMERICAN or a millstone round your neck BRITISH COMMON If something is a millstone around your neck or a millstone round your neck, it is a very unpleasant problem or responsibility that you cannot escape from. The country's inefficient telephone company has been a millstone round the government's neck. Long-term illness can make you feel like a millstone around your family's necks. Note: Millstone is often used on its own with this meaning. There is the continuing millstone of the country's enormous foreign debt. Note: A millstone is one of a pair of very heavy round flat stones which are used to grind grain. Jesus referred to children in Matthew 18:5 by saying, `Whoso shall offend one of these little ones which believe in me, it were better for him that a millstone were hanged about his neck and that he were drowned in the depth of the sea.' a millstone round your neck a very severe impediment or disadvantage. A millstone was a large circular stone used to grind corn. The phrase alludes to a method of executing people by throwing them into deep water with a heavy stone attached to them, a fate believed to have been suffered by several early Christian martyrs. a millstone around/round somebody’s ˈneck something which limits your freedom or makes you worry: My debts are a millstone round my neck.A millstone is a very large heavy flat stone used to crush grain to make flour. This phrase refers to an old form of punishing people by tying a heavy stone around their necks and dropping them into deep water to drown.
随便看	a chance in a million a chance of precipitation a change in her stripes a change in his stripes a change in my stripes a change in (one's) stripes a change in our stripes a change in someone's stripes a change in stripes a change in their stripes a change in your stripes a change is as good as a rest a change of heart a change of pace a change of scene a change of scenery a change of tack a changeup a change-up a channel-surfer a channel surfer a chapter of accidents a character assassination a charge a charley horse 美人松公园长白山虎园长白山高山牡丹园梦都美滑雪场高原冰雪运动训练基地长白山冰雪训练基地长白山和平滑雪场长白山红松王滑雪场亲水湾欢乐水世界梦都美水上乐园突破腊子口突驾突骑突骑将军突骑施突骑施守忠突骑施守节突骑施铜钱窃囚窃曲纹北京夏天有什么好玩的地方，北京哪里夏天好玩的地方？夏天适合去北京哪里玩，炎热夏天北京哪里玩？北京适合夏天去吗，下面讲讲北京避暑胜地排名。北京人少景美的地方有吗？北京周边好玩人少的地方南京夏天去哪里玩，南京夏天去哪里旅游最好？南京有哪些避暑地方，南京夏天去哪玩？夏天河南哪个地方好玩，河南适合夏天玩的地方在哪？河南夏天去哪里旅游最好，2018河南夏季旅游好去处上海的夏天哪里比较好，上海夏天适合去哪里玩？上海夏天去哪儿玩这些室内场馆好玩又凉爽！韩锅集伊藤家(中银店) 狄马可休闲餐厅(仙霞店) 西拉波尔好葳斗牛士(陕西南路店) 韩星韩式烤肉连锁一兆日本料理尼藏花园餐厅西堤厚牛排(上海天钥桥店)