| 单词 | burdensome |
| 释义 | burdensome (once / 3934 pages) adj Something that's burdensome is very difficult or tiring. It's better to weed your garden regularly, rather than put it off until it becomes an exhausting, burdensome task. Some summer jobs are easy and relaxing, like your laid-back dog walking business — other jobs are much more burdensome, like babysitting a large family of kids or lifeguarding at a pool where people keep nearly drowning. Something that's a burden, a physical load or a duty that weighs heavily on you, is burdensome. The Proto-Indo-European root means "to bear" or "to carry," and also "to give birth." WORD FAMILYburdensome: burdensomely, burdensomeness+/burden: burdened, burdening, burdenless, burdens, burdensome, disburden, overburden, unburden/disburden: disburdened, disburdening, disburdens/overburden: overburdened, overburdening, overburdens/unburden: unburdened, unburdening, unburdens USAGE EXAMPLESThey include “burdensome” school lunch standards, tobacco regulations, laws that set higher wages for contractors and elements of the Paris climate-change agreement. Washington Post(Jan 01, 2017) Carrier also claimed last year that federal regulations stifled its profits and sent a list of energy efficiency rules it deemed burdensome to the IEDC. Washington Post(Dec 30, 2016) “Additional financial reporting requirements would be unnecessary and burdensome,” she said, because there are few examples of client trust accounts being misused. Wall Street Journal(Dec 26, 2016) adj not easily borne; wearing the burdensome task of preparing the income tax return Syn onerous, taxing heavy marked by great psychological weight; weighted down especially with sadness or troubles or weariness |
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