keep your nose to the grindstone

/ˌkiːp jɔː ˌnəʊz tə ðə ˈɡraɪndstəʊn/INFORMAL · C1
中文对应近似对应
埋头苦干
字面意思: «把鼻子贴在磨刀石上»

含义

to keep working hard without stopping

持续不停地努力工作.

例句

  1. 1Ben kept his nose to the grindstone all summer and passed every module.
  2. 2If you keep your nose to the grindstone, the backlog will be gone by Friday.
  3. 3Aisha keeps her nose to the grindstone while the rest of us chat.
  4. 4You cannot keep your nose to the grindstone for forty years without a break.
  5. 5Do you really keep your nose to the grindstone every single evening?

语法

keep 和物主代词都会变化,物主代词与主语一致。即使主语是复数,nose 也保持单数。

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