[N-COUNT 可数名词]枯燥(或繁重)的工作 You can refer to a task or a job as a treadmill when you have to keep doing it although it is unpleasant and exhausting.
[usu sing]
Mr Stocks can expect a gruelling week on the publicity treadmill.
斯托克斯先生可以预见下一周会被枯燥繁重的宣传工作搞得焦头烂额。
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[N-COUNT 可数名词]踏车;跑步机 A treadmill is a piece of equipment, for example an exercise machine, consisting of a wheel with steps around its edge or a continuous moving belt. The weight of a person or animal walking on it causes the wheel or belt to turn.
Oxford
tread·mill/ˈtredmɪl; NAmEˈtredmɪl/noun _keepingfit_comp.jpg _treadmill.jpg 1[singular ]work or a way of life that is boring or tiring because it involves always doing the same things 枯燥无味的工作(或生活方式)◆I'd like to escape the office treadmill.我想摆脱办公室的枯燥工作。2[countable ](especially in the past) a large wheel turned by the weight of people or animals walking on steps around its inside edge, and used to operate machinery (尤指旧时由人或牲畜踩动踏板使之转动的)踏车3[countable ]an exercise machine that has a moving surface that you can walk or run on while remaining in the same place (锻炼身体的)跑步机,走步机treadmilltreadmillstread·mill/ˈtredmɪl; NAmEˈtredmɪl/
LDC
treadmilltread‧mill /ˈtredˌmɪl/ noun
Examples
word sets
1treadmill (1) [countable] a piece of exercise equipment that has a large belt around a set of wheels, that you can walk or run on while staying in the same place2[singular] work or a way of life that seems very boring because you always have to do the same things: the treadmill of working in the office3[countable] a mill worked in the past by prisoners treading on steps fixed to a very large wheel
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