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单词 treadmill
释义
treadmilltread‧mill /ˈtredˌmɪl/ noun Examples
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER DICTIONARIES
  • He ran two miles on the treadmill.
EXAMPLES FROM THE CORPUS
  • An intensely private man, one can only assume the attractions of the year-round treadmill are wearing thin.
  • And ask any worker about the treadmill, the maddening tedium.
  • Each peahen is on a treadmill and dare not jump off lest she condemn her sons to celibacy.
  • Here was a treadmill on which trainees got launched, often too quickly.
  • It has been described as bare-knuckle fighting without a ring and like setting toy mice on a treadmill.
  • Join a gym or buy a treadmill?
  • Width often leads to superficiality and depth may produce a blinkered approach and an intellectual treadmill.
word sets
WORD SETS
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1treadmill (1) [countable] a piece of exercise equipment that has a large belt around a set of wheels, that you can walk or run on while staying in the same place2[singular] work or a way of life that seems very boring because you always have to do the same things:  the treadmill of working in the office3[countable] a mill worked in the past by prisoners treading on steps fixed to a very large wheel
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