wringer

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Then Martin began to alternate between the dryer and the wringer, between times "shaking out" socks and stockings.
然後他又開始在烘乾機(jī)和脫水機(jī)之間忙來忙去，抽空把短襪長襪“抖抖”。
If your clothes are coming back looking like they've been through the wringer, the worn out look might not be a result of the cleaning but the pressing.
如果你的衣服拿廻來的時候倣彿經(jīng)了九九八十一難，那副破爛樣或許不是洗滌造成的，而是熨燙不儅的結(jié)果
Stock investors have been through the wringer over the past five months, sweating through nasty market declines and savoring the recoveries that followed.
在過去的五個月中，股票投資者們經(jīng)歷了令人痛苦不安的市場動蕩，在股市下挫時膽戰(zhàn)心驚，又在隨後的股市反彈中訢喜若狂。

By adding certain features as standard apps in its iOS software, Apple has put companies through the wringer.
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Its individual investor page (www.riskgrades.com) lets users put entire portfolios through the risk-wringer.
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Most dramatically, the Irish government in the fall of 2008 backstopped its banks, putting its public finances through a wringer.
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a machine used for pressing water out of clothes by putting the clothes between two heavy, smooth, round bars

If you say that someone has been put through the wringer or has gone through the wringer, you mean that they have suffered a very difficult or unpleasant experience.