keep your nose to the grindstone
/ˌkiːp jɔː ˌnəʊz tə ðə ˈɡraɪndstəʊn/INFORMAL · C1
中文對應近似對應
埋頭苦幹
字面意思: «把鼻子貼在磨刀石上»
意思
to keep working hard without stopping
持續不停地努力工作.
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?
文法
keep 和所有格都會變化,所有格與主詞一致。即使主詞是複數,nose 也保持單數。
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