mill

[mil]

n.磨坊, 工厂, 磨粉机
v.碾碎, 磨, （使）乱转
n.密尔（一种货币单位）

n.[C]

1. 磨坊; 面粉厂

The farmer took his corn to the mill.

农民把他的玉米拿到磨坊去。

2. 磨臼; 磨(粉)机

3. 制造厂, 工厂

She works in a textile mill.

她在一家纺织厂工作。

4. 钱币压印机; 榨汁机

5. 【机】铣床; 铣刀

6. 【冶】轧钢机

vt.

1. 碾碎; 将……磨成粉

I watched them mill the grain into flour.

我看着他们把谷物磨成粉。

2. 【机】铣

3. 在(钱币)上压印花边

4. 使(家畜)绕圈子转

vi.

1. (人, 家畜)成群地乱转[(+about/around)]

There's a huge crowd of people milling around in front of the theater.

一大群人在剧院门前转来转去。

2. 【俚】殴斗

3. 被研磨

词形变化

动词过去式: milled | 动词过去分词: milled | 动词现在分词: milling | 动词第三人称单数: mills |

词义辨析

同义:

n.工厂, 制造厂, 磨坊

factory  manufactory  plant  foundry  works  workshop  grinder  quern  shop

v.碾磨, 碾碎

grind  granulate  pulverize  comminute  triturate  powder  grate  bray  pound  crush

v.抽打

beat  whip  whisk

v.用拳打, 打败, 征服

beat  punch  hit  strike  fight  box  spar  overcome  defeat  trounce  

英英释义

名词 mill:

a plant consisting of one or more buildings with facilities for manufacturing

同义词：factory, manufacturing plant, manufactory

Scottish philosopher who expounded Bentham's utilitarianism; father of John Stuart Mill (1773-1836)

同义词：James Mill

English philosopher and economist remembered for his interpretations of empiricism and utilitarianism (1806-1873)

同义词：John Mill, John Stuart Mill

machinery that processes materials by grinding or crushing

同义词：grinder, milling machinery

the act of grinding to a powder or dust

同义词：grind, pulverization, pulverisation

动词 mill:

move about in a confused manner

同义词：mill about, mill around

grind with a mill

produce a ridge around the edge of

roll out (metal) with a rolling machine

短语词组

go through the mill

1. 经受磨炼

He is willing to go through the mill.

他愿接受磨炼。

No mill, no meal.

1. 不播种, 没收获。

put through the mill

1. 使接受磨炼

They put her through the mill.

他们使她接受磨炼。

The mills of God grind slowly.

1. 天网恢恢, 疏而不漏。

补充

millmill英:[mil] 美:[mɪl]n.1.磨坊; 磨粉机The farmer took his grain to the mill.这个农民把谷子送到磨房。2.作坊, 工厂Paper is made in a paper mill.纸是在造纸厂生产的。

例句

1. There has been a mill on this curve of the river since Saxon times.打从撒克逊时代起, 这条河的拐弯处就有一座磨坊了。 2. a flour mill面粉厂 3. Raw-steel production by the nation's mills decreased 3.4% last week.上周, 全国钢铁厂的原钢生产量下降了3.4%。 4. a paper mill造纸厂 5. a cotton mill棉纺厂 6. the growing industry of diploma mills that scam unsuspecting consumers and employers by offering fraudulent degrees不断壮大的、蒙骗毫不设防的消费者和雇主的假证制造产业 7. The rumour mill was abuzz with suggestions of a problem with the racehorse yesterday.谣言工厂昨天在喋喋不休地暗示那匹赛马存在问题。 8. The levy that supports the Jamestown fire department is set at 1.3 mills.用作詹姆斯敦消防队经费的征税额定为1.3厘。 9. By the time you have gone through the mill with various infertility treatments, you may well be too old to have children.等你饱受磨难完成各种不育治疗后, 可能已经太老了, 不能生育了。 10. The police questioned her for nearly three hours, during which time they really put her through the mill.警方审问了她将近三个小时, 着实让她吃了些苦头。 11. Susan was attractive and, even better, she was interesting. Not run of the mill at all.苏珊有魅力, 而且更可贵的是她还很有趣, 一点也不平淡乏味。 12. Ted was no run of the mill entrepreneur but an inventor with a fierce pride in his company.特德并不是一个普普通通的企业家, 而是一位对自己的公司有着高度自豪感的创造者。 13. They mill 1000 tonnes of flour a day in every Australian state.澳大利亚每个州一天要磨1,000吨面粉。 14. Add sea salt and freshly milled black pepper.添加海盐和现磨的黑胡椒粉。 15. Last year, an estimated 193,368 tonnes of ore were milled.去年矿石加工量经估算为193,368吨。 16. polished timber boards which were milled from recycled wharf beams利用回收的码头横梁加工制成的磨光板材 17. The designer milled and installed steel strips around the fireplace.设计师铣好钢条后安装在壁炉四周。 18. to mill grain碾碎谷物 19. There was a crowd of people milling about in the streets.有一大群人在街上转来转去。 20. a coffee mill.咖啡磨。 21. a steel mill.轧钢厂。 22. [as modifier]a mill town.多作坊的小城镇。 23. hard wheats are easily milled into white flour.硬质小麦很容易就被磨成了白面粉。 24. [as adj., with submodifier]freshly milled black pepper.刚碾好的黑胡椒。 25. [as abj. milling]lathes and milling machines.车床和铣床。 26. people milled about the room, shaking hands.大家在房间里转来转去互相握手。 27. [as adj. milling]the milling crowds of guests.来回打转的一群群客人。 28. a cotton/paper/steel mill棉纺厂；造纸厂；炼钢厂 29. a windmill风车 30. a pepper mill胡椒碾磨机 31. a food/pepper mill食物/胡椒研磨器 32. a paper/cotton/textile/lumber/steel mill造纸/棉纺/纺织/木材/钢厂 33. mill workers工厂工人 34. Some critics have described the school as a diploma mill. [=a school where students can obtain diplomas very easily]一些批评者将那所学校比作文凭制造厂。 35. The rumor mill has been churning out stories about their marriage. [=there are many rumors about their marriage]谣言工厂一直在炮制大量关于他们婚姻的报道。 36. They've been (put) through the mill in the months since their father died.父亲死后的几个月里，他们的日子一直不好过。 37. milled wheat/lumber粉碎的小麦/木材 38. The crowd was milling outside the exit.人群在出口外转悠。 39. People were just milling around while they waited.人们等候时就在周边溜达。