white man's burden

短语

白人的负担（白人殖民者自认为应给殖民地黑人居民灌输其文明的任务）

释义与例句

n.
  1. 1.

    The supposed responsibility of European people to govern and care for their colonial subjects.

    白人的负担

词汇关系

名词

上位词 3

duty responsibility obligation

词源

From the poem The White Man's Burden (published 1899) by Rudyard Kipling.

来源：wiktionary