burden

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n. 负担, 重载, 担子, 责任 vt. 装货于, 烦扰, 使负担

发音

UK /ˈbɜːdn̩/
US /ˈbɝdn̩/

词形变化

burdens 复数 burdened burdenest burdeneth burdening burdens 三单 burdens burdening 现在分词 burdened 过去式 burdened 过去分词

别名

burthen

教材释义与例句

动词

使负担;烦扰;装货于

If someone burdens you with something that is likely to worry you, for example, a problem or a difficult decision, they tell you about it

释义与例句

n. C1 Oxf 5000
  1. 1.

    A heavy load.

    负荷

  2. 2.

    A responsibility, onus.

    负担

  3. 3.

    A cause of worry; that which is grievous, wearisome, or oppressive.

  4. 4.

    The capacity of a vessel, or the weight of cargo that she will carry.

    a ship of a hundred tons burden

  5. 5.

    The tops or heads of stream-work which lie over the stream of tin.

    商务 采矿
  6. 6.

    The proportion of ore and flux to fuel, in the charge of a blast furnace.

    艺术 工程
  7. 7.

    A fixed quantity of certain commodities.

    A burden of gad steel is 120 pounds.

  8. 8.

    A birth.

    废旧 罕用

    … that bore thee at a burden two fair sons.

  9. 9.

    The total amount of toxins, parasites, cancer cells, plaque or similar present in an organism.

    医学
  10. 10.

    The distance between rows of blastholes parallel to the major free face (i.e. face of the excavation)

  11. 1.

    A phrase or theme that recurs at the end of each verse in a folk song or ballad.

    音乐
  12. 2.

    The drone of a bagpipe.

  13. 3.

    Theme, core idea.

    the burden of the argument

v. B2
  1. 1.

    To encumber with a literal or figurative burden.

    及物

    to burden a nation with taxes

  2. 2.

    To impose, as a load or burden; to lay or place as a burden (something heavy or objectionable).

    及物

词汇关系

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词源

Inherited from Middle English burden, birden, burthen, birthen, byrthen, from Old English byrden, byrþen, from Proto-West Germanic *burþini, from *burþī, from Proto-Germanic *burþį̄, from Proto-Indo-European *bʰer- (“to carry, bear”).

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