磨[mó]

动

1. rub; wear; 他的脚上

~出了泡。 His feet were blistered from the rubbing. / 没关系, 就~破了一点皮。 Nothing serious. Just a graze. / 袜子~破了。 The socks are worn into holes.

2. grind; polish

♦ ~剪子 grind scissors; sharpen scissors

♦ ~大理石 polish marble

♦ ~墨 rub an ink stick against an inkstone; make ink for writing with a brush

3. wear down; wear out

♦ 他被这场病~得不成样子。 The illness has worn him down to a mere shadow of his former self.

4. trouble; pester; worry

♦ 这孩子可真~人。 What a little torment that child is!

♦ 他不答应, 你就跟他~。 If he doesn't agree, just keep on at him until he does.

5. obliterate; die out

♦ 百世不~ will endure for centuries

6. dawdle; waste time

♦ 快走吧, 别再~时间了。 Stop dawdling and get going.

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磨[mò]
名mill; millstones

♦ 电~ electric mill

动

1. grind; mill

♦ ~麦子 grind wheat

♦ ~面 mill flour

2. turn round

♦ 把大车~过来。 Turn the cart round.

♦ 我几次三番劝他, 他还是~不过来。 I had talked to him again and again, but he simply wouldn't come round.

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