英语词汇“mill-horse round”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

Of or characteristic of a mill-horse. Usually figurative. Frequently in mill-horse round (cf. mill-round n.). Now rare.

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1729 J. Mitchell Poems Several Occasions I. 59 How curs'd the Man, who still is musing found? His Mill-Horse Soul forms one eternal Round.

1844 Athenæum 15 June 544/3 Those wild youths sink down into the stagnation of official routine, or subside into the mill-horse activity of commercial life.

1859 J. S. Mill On Liberty v. 203 The official body are under the constant temptation of sinking into indolent routine, or, if they now and then desert that mill-horse round, of rushing into some half-examined crudity which has struck the fancy of some leading member of the corps.

1881 J. Ruskin in Lett. Art & Lit. (1894) 65 It cost Turner forty years of mill-horse toil.

1903 Contemp. Rev. Oct. 514 Her mill-horse round of vain repetitions.

单词	mill-horse round
释义	> as lemmas mill-horse round Of or characteristic of a mill-horse. Usually figurative. Frequently in mill-horse round (cf. mill-round n.). Now rare. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > mammals > group Ungulata (hoofed) > family Equidae (general equines) > horse defined by purpose used for > [adjective] > working working1577 mill-horse1729 1729 J. Mitchell Poems Several Occasions I. 59 How curs'd the Man, who still is musing found? His Mill-Horse Soul forms one eternal Round. 1844 Athenæum 15 June 544/3 Those wild youths sink down into the stagnation of official routine, or subside into the mill-horse activity of commercial life. 1859 J. S. Mill On Liberty v. 203 The official body are under the constant temptation of sinking into indolent routine, or, if they now and then desert that mill-horse round, of rushing into some half-examined crudity which has struck the fancy of some leading member of the corps. 1881 J. Ruskin in Lett. Art & Lit. (1894) 65 It cost Turner forty years of mill-horse toil. 1903 Contemp. Rev. Oct. 514 Her mill-horse round of vain repetitions. extracted from mill-horsen.adj. < as lemmas
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