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。
• 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。
• It won't grind down any finer than this.
  不能磨的比这个再细了。
• Roll grinder a special lathe used to grind down or resurface rubber applicator rolls.
  辊子打磨&特殊的车床用来磨去和涂布辊的表面。
• 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。
• Heavy taxes grind us down.
  我们受重税的压榨。
• 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 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。
• 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。