treadmill

• n. 踏车，跑步机；单调的工作

treadmill (n.)

invented (and named) 1822; originally an instrument of prison discipline; from tread (v.) + mill (n.1). Treadwheel as a similar method of driving machinery is from 1570s.

As a corrective punishment, the discipline of the stepping mill has had a most salutary effect upon the prisoners, and is not likely to be easily forgotten, while it is an occupation which by no means interferes with, nor is calculated to lessen the value of, those branches of prison regulation which provide for the moral and religious improvement of the criminal. ["Description of the Tread Mill Invented by Mr. William Cubitt of Ipswich for the Employment of Prisoners," London, 1822]

By later generations regarded as a path to physical fitness.

来自柯林斯例句

2. I'd like to escape the office treadmill.

我想摆脱办公室的枯燥工作。

来自《权威词典》

3. The treadmill has a heart rate monitor.

跑步机上有个脉搏监视器.

来自《简明英汉词典》

4. The men exercised on a treadmill after each exposure and control period.

在每次控制时间的暴露之后,这些人在踏车上运动.

来自辞典例句

5. Drugs remove man from the treadmill of routine.

药物可以使人摆脱日常单调的工作带来的疲劳.

来自辞典例句