| 单词 | burden |
| 释义 | bur·den I. 1. a. < a donkey hidden under his burden of firewood > < a burden of dust carried by the wind > < images carry the burden of the poem's effect > b. obsolete c. < the burden of empire > < executive burdens > < tax burdens > d. 2. < she came with little but her burden of fear > : encumbrance < to have the burden of a foreign tongue removed was … an inexpressible relief — William Black > 3. 4. dialect 5. < a ship of a hundred tons burden > 6. Scots law 7. 8. 9. a. b. (1) (2) 10. II. 1. < the numerous pretty things … which burden the tables — Herbert Spencer > < burdened his men with endless labors > 2. < I will not burden you with a lengthy account > : charge < burdening his conscience with a grave moral responsibility > 3. archaic 4. Synonyms: < men burdened with such intellectual tasks as theirs — H.O.Taylor > encumber is likely to suggest cumbersome and unwieldy burdens making progress difficult, literally or figuratively < unencumbered with luggage they would soon overtake the coach — Charles Dickens > < the overheavy richness and encumbered gait of the Asiatic style — Matthew Arnold > cumber suggests what is unwieldy, bulky, and cluttering but is less likely to stress motion than encumber < beyond the power of Rome, cumbered already with so many duties — John Buchan > < the whole Palace had been burnt in 1698, and its roofless walls still cumbered the river bank — G.M.Trevelyan > Usu. figurative, weigh in such phrases as weigh on one or weigh one down suggests the depressing effect of some burden carried over a long period < the tyranny at Bulaire weighed so heavily on the countryside — T.B.Costain > < for nearly a century the Dutch problem had weighed on Spain — Stringfellow Barr > weight now often suggests a tendency to inclination, bias, slanting, often through a contrived arrangement < there is no doubt that the new magazine will be heavily weighted on the American side — Crane Brinton > < those who fear that such planning councils … will be nothing but a further addition to an already weighted bureaucracy are in error — Norman Thomas > load is likely to suggest a full or more than adequate supply < her hands … loaded with rings — Victoria Sackville-West > and may suggest a packing with significance or perhaps the slanting associated with weight < the discoverers of a new theory … may have loaded a useful notion with more than it can bear — B.N.Cardozo > < his absolutism loaded legality in his favor — Francis Hackett > lade, more common in the past participle laden than in other uses, is occasionally used in situations involving burdens or grief < with rue my heart is laden — A.E.Housman > saddle may suggest an inescapable oppressive burden or responsibility lasting over a long period < the reason being that … the abbeys were saddled with multitudes of statutory masses — G.G.Coulton > < the indemnity for the Opium War … saddled the Chinese government with an international debt — Owen & Eleanor Lattimore > charge in this series may refer to either heavy responsibilities or packed or loaded significances < I charge myself with him; let him remain with me — Charles Dickens > < all the perennial, elemental processes of nature … were charged for psalmist and prophet with spiritual significance — J.L.Lowes > tax indicates continuing heavy demands < the labor of calculating and recording would have taxed energy beyond endurance — Edward Clodd > III. 1. archaic < I would sing my song without a burden; thou bringest me out of tune — Shakespeare > 2. 3. < the burden of the argument > < words of praise are fraught with that desire to hear lost laughter which is the burden of every century's lament — Agnes Repplier > |
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