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