A car will come to a grinding halt if you put water in the gas tank.

如果你往油箱里加水，汽车会突然停下。

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Their grandfather had left his village in order to escape the grinding poverty.

他们的祖父离开自己的村庄以躲避令人难以忍受的贫穷。

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Dressed in her school uniform, seven-year-old Rani Eknath Mane waits for her father to finish grinding the family's harvest of chickpeas.

7岁的 Rani Eknath Mane 穿着她的校服，正等着她的父亲磨完今天她家收获的鹰嘴豆。

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