treadmill是什么意思

双语例句

(1)I'm tired of the treadmill.

我厌倦了这种重复性工作。

(2)This treadmill is specially designed for kids.

这种跑步机是专门为孩子们设计的。

(3)This treadmill was a device used to punish inmates.

这个踏车曾是用来惩罚犯人的装置。

(4)He exhausted himself on an endless treadmill to pay for rent and food.

为了支付房租和食物，他精力全都耗在了一份没完没了的单调工作上。

(5)I'd like to escape the office treadmill.

我想摆脱办公室的枯燥工作。

(6)Are you one of those people who use a treadmill as a fancy clothes hanger?

你是不是像有些人一样把跑步机当作漂亮衣服的挂衣架？

(7)So you've run on the treadmill.

所以你在跑步机上跑。

(8)He also ran on a treadmill.

他也用到了跑步机。

词根词缀

null tread v. 走

null mill n. 磨坊

释义

n.

a device formerly used for driving machinery, consisting of a large wheel with steps fitted into its inner surface. It was turned by the weight of people or animals treading the steps.

踏车（过去由人或牲口踩动踏板以驱动机器）。

a similar device used today for exercise

健身踏步车。

figurative a job or situation that is tiring, boring, or unpleasant and from which it is hard to escape

〈喻〉 令人厌倦的工作；单调的工作；令人不快的情况

the soulless treadmill of urban existence.

枯燥无味的城市生活。

考纲分布

近9年出现1次

重要程度: 3星

100%; n 乏味枯燥的工作

考纲释义

( 1)n. 乏味枯燥的工作

英文释义：any monotonous round of duties; work; or others in which one seems to make no progress

考纲分布

近9年出现1次

重要程度: 3星

100%; n 踏步机; 跑步机

考纲释义

( 1)n. 踏步机; 跑步机

真题例句：

She is able to take Zumba exercise classes three times a week, work out on the treadmill, and take long, brisk walks.

她能够每周上三次尊巴健身课，在跑步机上锻炼，并进行长时间的快步行走。[2019年 CET6 阅读理解B]

(1)You don't need a destination when you're running on an omnidirectional treadmill with quadraphonic, pressure-sensitive underlay.

只要你脚下有一台四声道压敏底垫全方位跑步机你就可以随时出发。《Ready Player One》《头号玩家》

(2)Then one day on the treadmill, I was reading this article on Sociology Journal about how people don't start out lying to other people, they start out lying to themselve, and the things we repeat most frequently are often those lies.

有天在跑步机上，我正在读社会学杂志上的论文。上面写道，相比对他人撒谎，人们更喜欢对自己撒谎。而重复最多的那些话，通常就是谎言。《Sheryl Speech at Harvard》《Facebook COO谢丽尔·桑德伯格哈佛演讲》