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Then Martin began to alternate between the dryer and the wringer, between times "shaking out" socks and stockings.
然后他又开始在烘干机和脱水机之间忙来忙去，抽空把短袜长袜“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.
如果你的衣服拿回来的时候仿佛经了九九八十一难，那副破烂样或许不是洗涤造成的，而是熨烫不当的结果
Stock investors have been through the wringer over the past five months, sweating through nasty market declines and savoring the recoveries that followed.
在过去的五个月中，股票投资者们经历了令人痛苦不安的市场动荡，在股市下挫时胆战心惊，又在随后的股市反弹中欣喜若狂。

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.