wringer
wringer 英 ['rɪŋə] 美 ['rɪŋɚ]
n. 勒索者；绞拧机；绞扭的人；令人心力交困的事
名词复数:wringers
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- n. 勒索者；绞拧机；绞扭的人；令人心力交困的事
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1. Then Martin began to alternate between the dryer and the wringer, between times "shaking out" socks and stockings.
然后他又开始在烘干机和脱水机之间忙来忙去，抽空把短袜长袜“抖抖”。
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2. She has yet to learn how to be false, even in a hankie-wringer of a climax that suggests Maya's headed for either sainthood or a nervous breakdown.
她需要学习如何伪装，即便在那催人泪下的高潮部分，玛雅要不冷酷得像圣徒，要不情感到达崩溃边缘。
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3. Stock investors have been through the wringer over the past five months, sweating through nasty market declines and savoring the recoveries that followed.
在过去的五个月中，股票投资者们经历了令人痛苦不安的市场动荡，在股市下挫时胆战心惊，又在随后的股市反弹中欣喜若狂。
- wringer (n.) "device for squeezing water from clothes," 1799, agent noun from wring (v.). (Earlier it meant "extortioner," c. 1300.) Figurative phrase to put (someone) through the wringer first recorded 1942, American English.
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