Burden
['bɜːd(ə)n] or ['bɝdn]
解釋/意思:
(noun.) an onerous or difficult concern; 'the burden of responsibility'; 'that's a load off my mind'.
(noun.) the central idea that is expanded in a document or discourse.
(verb.) weight down with a load.
整理:肯尼思--From WordNet
解釋/意思:
(n.) That which is borne or carried; a load.
(n.) That which is borne with labor or difficulty; that which is grievous, wearisome, or oppressive.
(n.) The capacity of a vessel, or the weight of cargo that she will carry; as, a ship of a hundred tons burden.
(n.) The tops or heads of stream-work which lie over the stream of tin.
(n.) The proportion of ore and flux to fuel, in the charge of a blast furnace.
(n.) A fixed quantity of certain commodities; as, a burden of gad steel, 120 pounds.
(n.) A birth.
(v. t.) To encumber with weight (literal or figurative); to lay a heavy load upon; to load.
(v. t.) To oppress with anything grievous or trying; to overload; as, to burden a nation with taxes.
(v. t.) To impose, as a load or burden; to lay or place as a burden (something heavy or objectionable).
(n.) The verse repeated in a song, or the return of the theme at the end of each stanza; the chorus; refrain. Hence: That which is often repeated or which is dwelt upon; the main topic; as, the burden of a prayer.
(n.) The drone of a bagpipe.
(n.) A club.
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同義詞及近義詞：
n. [1]. Load, weight.[2]. Cargo, freight, lading.[3]. Incumbrance, clog, impediment, incubus, drag weight, dead weight.[4]. Chorus, refrain.
v. a. Load, overload, overlay, oppress, surcharge, put a burden upon.
校對:佩里
同義詞及反義詞：
SYN:Load, weight, Incubus, obstruction, oppression, grief, difficulty, affliction
ANT:Ease, lightness, airiness, expedition, facility, acceleration, abjugation,liberation, lightheartedness, alleviation, assuagement, mitigation,consolation, disburdenment
錄入:玛格利特
解釋/意思:
n. (Spens.) a pilgrim's staff.
n. a load: weight: cargo: that which is grievous oppressive or difficult to bear as blame sin sorrow &c.: birth.—v.t. to load: to oppress: to encumber.—adjs. Bur′denous Bur′densome heavy: oppressive.—Burden of proof in legal procedure signifies the obligation to establish by evidence certain disputed facts.
n. part of a song repeated at the end of every stanza refrain: the leading idea of anything: a load of care sorrow or responsibility.
整理:梅尔巴
娱乐性解釋/意思：
To dream that you carry a heavy burden, signifies that you will be tied down by oppressive weights of care and injustice, caused from favoritism shown your enemies by those in power. But to struggle free from it, you will climb to the topmost heights of success.
編輯:利拉
例句/造句/用法:
- The burden fell into a strain or tune as he stumped along the pavements. 查理斯·狄更斯. 我們共同的朋友.
- Even the experimental work imposes no slight burden on it. 弗蘭克·路易斯·戴爾. 愛迪生的生平和發明.
- Nothing irks me like the idea of being a burden and a bore--an inevitable burden, a ceaseless bore! 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪麗.
- That was the burden of her lament; and her last adjuration to her daughter was to escape from dinginess if she could. 伊蒂絲·華頓. 快樂之家.
- No one is useless in this world,' retorted the Secretary, 'who lightens the burden of it for any one else. 查理斯·狄更斯. 我們共同的朋友.
- It seemed to me that I was this dayespecially doomed--the main burden and trial falling on me alone of all the female teachers. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 維萊特.
- I never ought to, while I have you to cheer me up, Marmee, and Laurie to take more than half of every burden, replied Amy warmly. 路易莎·梅·奧爾科特. 小婦人.
- It is as well I should ease my mind before I die: what we think little of in health, burdens us at such an hour as the present is to me. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 簡·愛.
- The men put down their burdens, and then one caught sight of the notice which Tarzan had posted. 愛德格·賴斯·巴勒斯. 人猿泰山.
- His superior intelligence and cunning permitted him to invent a thousand diabolical tricks to add to the burdens of Tublat's life. 愛德格·賴斯·巴勒斯. 人猿泰山.
- How slow had been the apprehension of the forces of that kind but silent Mother whose strong arms are ever ready to lift and carry the burdens of men whenever her aid is diligently sought! 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世紀發明.
- Then came the riderless horses with their burdens tied across the saddles. 歐尼斯特·海明威. 喪鐘為誰而鳴.
- I may be strong-minded, but no one can say I'm out of my sphere now, for woman's special mission is supposed to be drying tears and bearing burdens. 路易莎·梅·奧爾科特. 小婦人.
- There never was a man like him for laying on himself burdens greater than he can bearvoluntarily incurring needless responsibilities. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 維萊特.
- She would not be burdened with her society for any consideration. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 簡·愛.
- A second followed, then a third, a fourth, a fifth, and ultimately the whole barrow was peopled with burdened figures. 湯瑪斯·哈代. 還鄉.
- Well, really--considering it was you who burdened him with the responsibility! 伊蒂絲·華頓. 快樂之家.
- It's a pity, wife, that you have burdened them with a morality above their condition and prospects. 哈麗葉特·比切·斯托. 湯姆叔叔的小屋.
- Xodar was burdened with the boy, and I with the three long-swords. 愛德格·賴斯·巴勒斯. 火星戰神.
- They are overconscious, burdened to death with consciousness. 大衛·赫伯特·勞倫斯. 戀愛中的女人.
- What now the value of burdening my friends with my added personal sorrows--they had shared quite enough of them with me in the past. 愛德格·賴斯·巴勒斯. 火星戰神.
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