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单词 grist
释义
grist
noun
uk
/ɡrɪst/us
/ɡrɪst/
grist to the millUK(USgrist for the mill)
anything that can be used toyouradvantage:
可用来为（某人）谋利的事情，对（某人）有利的事情
I might as welllearnanotherlanguage,it's allgrist to themillwhen it comes to getting ajob.我也可以再学一门外语，那样对找工作很有利。
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  • hold all the cardsidiom
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  • in the right place at the right timeidiom
  • it's tough at the topidiom
  • lock
  • locksomethingin
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(Definition ofgristfrom theCambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesofgrist

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At the same time millers in areas where surpluses exist have been instructed to increase the percentage of home-grown wheat used in their grists.
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With the present diluted grists, it is possible to make very good bread if fermentation is at its optimum, but slight over- or under-fermentation can have disastrous results.
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The left with its scruples about the world's first socialist country and its fear of providinggristto the right's mill.
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The more one puts in a statute the more it tends to confusion and the moregristthere is to the legal mill.
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No control is exercised over thegristmills of individual farmers.
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Then gymnasia, and similar institutions, could make use of textile-free rubbergrist—rubber which has been reconditioned and from which the textile element has been removed.
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The millers are now free to use whatgristthey like.
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All of this isgristto the lawyers' mill, as they live on legal doubts.
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There is a temptation for some to regard matters such as we are discussing today asgristto the mill.
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As has been stated, what we wanted to do upstairs was to protect the small farmer and thegristmiller.
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Any variations which occur in the flour sold are due to variations in thegristavailable.
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I do not want to givegristto certain separationist-minded people in respect of it, but this is a gift to them.
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All isgristthat comes to their mill.
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There will be a lot moregristto the soil's mill when that arrives.
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Home-grown wheat accounts for only about one-fifth of the average bread flourgrist, and is a minor item in the cost of bread.
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