treadmill
英 ['tredm?l]
美['tr?dm?l]
- n. 踏車，跑步機；單調的工作
TOEFL低頻詞暢通詞匯
詞態變化
復數:?treadmills;
英文詞源
- treadmill (n.)
- invented (and named) 1822; originally an instrument of prison discipline; from tread (v.) + mill (n.1). Treadwheel as a similar method of driving machinery is from 1570s.
As a corrective punishment, the discipline of the stepping mill has had a most salutary effect upon the prisoners, and is not likely to be easily forgotten, while it is an occupation which by no means interferes with, nor is calculated to lessen the value of, those branches of prison regulation which provide for the moral and religious improvement of the criminal. ["Description of the Tread Mill Invented by Mr. William Cubitt of Ipswich for the Employment of Prisoners," London, 1822]
By later generations regarded as a path to physical fitness.
雙語例句
- 1. Mr Stocks can expect a gruelling week on the publicity treadmill.
- 斯托克斯先生可以預見下一周會被枯燥繁重的宣傳工作搞得焦頭爛額。
來自柯林斯例句
- 2. I'd like to escape the office treadmill.
- 我想擺脫辦公室的枯燥工作。
來自《權威詞典》
- 3. The treadmill has a heart rate monitor.
- 跑步機上有個脈搏監視器.
來自《簡明英漢詞典》
- 4. The men exercised on a treadmill after each exposure and control period.
- 在每次控制時間的暴露之后,這些人在踏車上運動.
來自辭典例句
- 5. Drugs remove man from the treadmill of routine.
- 藥物可以使人擺脫日常單調的工作帶來的疲勞.
來自辭典例句