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

  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?

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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