grind是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为vt. 磨, 磨碎, 碾碎; (down) 折磨, 压迫 vi. 摩擦得吱吱作响 n. 苦差事,苦活儿，这个词在很多英文原版小说中怎么应用呢，今天小编就带您了解一下。
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《白痴》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Gania used to grind his teeth with rage over the state of affairs; though he was anxious to be dutiful and polite to his mother.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《双城记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The Judge, whose eyes had gone in the general direction, recalled them, leaned back in his seat, and looked steadily at the man whose life was in his hand, as Mr. Attorney-Gen-89eral rose to spin the rope, grind the axe, and hammer the nails into the scaffold.
-- 'We were so robbed by that man who stands there, as all we common dogs are by those superior Beings taxed by him without mercy, obliged to work for him without pay, obliged to grind our corn at his mill, obliged to feed scores of his tame birds on our wretched crops, and forbidden for our lives to keep a single tame bird of our own, pillaged and plundered to that degree that when we chanced to have a bit of meat, we ate it in fear, with the door barred and the shut-ters closed, that his people should not see it and take it from 463us I say, we were so robbed, and hunted, and were made so poor, that our father told us it was a dreadful thing to bring a child into the world, and that what we should most pray for, was, that our women might be barren and our miser-able race die out!'
在辛克莱·刘易斯的《阿罗史密斯》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Of course I understand why girls fall for Martin here, with his romantic eyes, but a grind like me, I have to go on working without a single person to give me sympathy.
-- Thus began the friendship between Martin and Terry Wickett; thus began a change in Martin's life whereby he gave up three or four hours of wholesome sleep each night to grind over matters which everyone is assumed to know, and almost everyone does not know.
-- Chapter 30 For a year broken only by Terry Wickett's return after the Armistice, and by the mockeries of that rowdy intelligence, Martin was in a grind of drudgery.
-- No scientist can go through his grind and not come out more or less rude.
在威廉·萨默塞特·毛姆的《月亮和六便士》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "The mills of God grind slowly, but they grind exceeding small," he said, somewhat impressively.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《大卫科波菲尔》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I forgotto mention that he would talk to himself sometimes, and grin, andclench his fist, and grind his teeth, and pull his hair in anunaccountable manner.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《老古玩店》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The dog immediately began to grind most mournful music.
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The restless and shadowy figure of a colt wandered about a loose-box at the end, whilst the steady grind of all the eaters was occasionally diversified by the rattle of a rope or the stamp of a foot.
-- 'Tis a horrible testament mind ye, which you say and seal with your blood-stone, and the prophet Matthew tells us that on whomsoever it shall fall it will grind him to powder.
在巴尔扎克的《高老头》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I ought to stop in my corner, grind away at law, and never look to be anything but a boorish country magistrate.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《艰难时世》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Did he see himself, a white-haired decrepit man, bending his hitherto inflexible theories to appointed circumstances; making his facts and figures subservient to Faith, Hope, and Charity; and no longer trying to grind that Heavenly trio in his dusty little mills?
在戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯的《查太莱夫人的情人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The days seemed to grind by, with curious painfulness, yet nothing happened.
-- She had to work the thing herself, grind her own coffee.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The little counting-house reserved for his own occupation, was a room of wood and glass at the end of a long low workshop, filled with benches, and vices, and tools, and straps, and wheels; which, when they were in gear with the steam-engine, went tearing round as though they had a suicidal mission to grind the business to dust and tear the factory to pieces.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《雾都孤儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Oh!if when we oppress and grind our fellow-creatures, we bestowed but one thought on the dark evidences of human error, which, like dense and heavy clouds, are rising, slowly it is true, but not less surely, to Heaven, to pour their after-vengeance on our heads; if we heard but one instant, in imagination, the deep testimony of dead men's voices, which no power can stifle, and no pride shut out; where would be the injury and injustice, the suffering, misery, cruelty, and wrong, that each day's life brings with it!
在丹尼尔·笛福的《鲁滨逊漂流记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I had three large axes, and abundance of hatchets (for we carried the hatchets for traffic with the Indians); but with much chopping and cutting knotty hard wood, they were all full of notches, and dull; and though I had a grindstone, I could not turn it and grind my tools too.
-- And yet here I was perplexed again, for I nei-ther knew how to grind or make meal of my corn, or indeed how to clean it and part it; nor, if made into meal, how to make bread of it; and if how to make it, yet I knew not how to bake it.
-- Then I wanted a mill to grind it sieves to dress it, yeast and salt to make it into bread, and an oven to bake it; but all these things I did without, as shall be observed; and yet the corn was an inestimable comfort and advantage to me too.
-- Alas!there the sor-ry, useless stuff lay; I had no more manner of business for it; and often thought with myself that I would have given a handful of it for a gross of tobacco-pipes; or for a hand-mill to grind my corn; nay, I would have given it all for a sixpen-ny-worth of turnip and carrot seed out of England, or for a handful of peas and beans, and a bottle of ink.
在西奥多·德莱塞的《嘉莉妹妹》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Chapter XXXIV THE GRIND OF THE MILLSTONES--A SAMPLE OF CHAFF Carrie pondered over this situation as consistently as Hurstwood, once she got the facts adjusted in her mind.
-- He was sick of the grind of this thing.
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