to pester / to bother sb incessantly / to delay / to prevaricate
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to apply a skin-smoothing effect (in photo editing) / to smooth the skin (cosmetic procedure)
lower millstone / tray of a mill
whetstone / millstone
millstone grit / coarse sandstone
millstone grit
to scrub with an abrasive / to sand / frosted (e.g. glass)
sander / sanding machine
frosted glass
facial scrub
incessant complaining
to talk until one is blue in the face
to wear out one's lips (idiom) / to talk until one is blue in the face / to repeat again and again
to grind up
to dillydally / slow-going
to grind one's way through an ink stone / to persevere in a difficult task (idiom) / to study diligently (idiom)
wear and tear / wearing out by friction
pumice stone
erosion / abrasion
a polished stone (neolithic) implement
to grumble / to chatter away incessantly
friction blister
(proverb) a blade will get rusty if it is not sharpened / a man will fall behind if he doesn't study
lit. cutting and polishing (idiom) / fig. to learn by exchanging ideas or experiences
lit. to kill the donkey when the grinding is done (idiom) / fig. to get rid of sb once he has ceased to be useful
UN convention against torture and cruel treatment (ratified by PRC in 1988)
If you work at it hard enough, you can grind an iron bar into a needle. / cf idiom 磨杵成針|磨杵成针, to grind an iron bar down to a fine needle (idiom) / fig. to persevere in a difficult task / to study diligently
the road to happiness is strewn with setbacks (idiom)
(proverb) A lazy person will find many excuses to delay working / lit. When a lazy donkey is turning a grindstone, it takes a lot of time off for peeing and pooing
(of a donkey etc) to turn a millstone / (fig.) to do laborious and monotonous work
dawdling / to waste time
to torment / to torture
lit. with money, you can get a devil to turn a millstone (idiom) / fig. with money, you can get anything done / money talks
rod mill
terrazzo
to kill time
freshly ground
see 球磨機|球磨机[]
ball mill
grindstone
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