wringer
英式音标['rɪŋɚ]
美式英标['rɪŋə]
基本解释
英文词源
- 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.
