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grist [grɪst]

n. 谷物, 面粉, 碎麦芽, 大量

I never refuse odd jobs to supplement my income it's all grist to the mill.
我为增加收入, 对於做零活总是来者不拒--多多益善.
Anyone else would refuse the additional work, but it's all grist to her mill, because she wants to get ahead in her job.
其他任何人都不会接受这种分外工作，但这对她有好处，因为她希望自己的工作进展得快一些。
All's grist that comes to the mill.
到磨子里的一切都成粉；来者不拒，全盘照收。

grist

[ noun ]
grain intended to be or that has been ground
<noun.food>

Grist \Grist\, n. [AS. grist, fr. grindan. See {Grind}.]
1. Ground corn; that which is ground at one time; as much
grain as is carried to the mill at one time, or the meal
it produces.

Get grist to the mill to have plenty in store.
--Tusser. Q.

2. Supply; provision. --Swift.

3. In rope making, a given size of rope, common grist being a
rope three inches in circumference, with twenty yarns in
each of the three strands. --Knight.

{All is grist that comes to his mill}, all that he has
anything to do with is a source of profit. [Colloq.]

{To bring grist to the maill}, to bring profitable business
into one's hands; to be a source of profit. [Colloq.]
--Ayliffe.

All this is grist to Mr Gysi's mill.
These unbridled attacks were grist for the mill of the real fascists, who used these exaggerations to prove that a surfeit of freedom of speech was endangering the very survival of the Soviet Union.
Another USDA group involves economics and statistics, which provide so much of the grist that goes into the making of farm policy, in Congress as well as within the administration.
Also, baseball's longer seasons provide more grist for the literary mill, and its slower pace leaves more time for note taking.
It is possible because once translated into the computer language of '0s' and '1s', all media are grist to the computer's mill.
That and a capacity-starved industrial sector are not the grist of longer-term economic prosperity.
Others argue that National is adding grist to the minor parties' mill.
As Mr. Roach said, "imbalances and bottleneck possibilities are not the grist for a long-lasting era of economic prosperity."
That's grist for the baby catalogs.
Judge Thomas's strong opposition to affirmative action and the abortion debate will be grist for his confirmation hearings.
India's inflation rate rose in the week ending December 3, adding fresh grist to the mill of critics of the government's economic policies.
The allegations of the McMartin children have been grist for defense attorneys in subsequent abuse cases.
Sen. Jake Garn, who flew aboard the space shuttle in 1985, has used the spacecraft as grist for his first novel, "Night Launch." The plot involves a terrorist hijacking of a space shuttle flight.

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