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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。