burden
美 [ˈbɜrd(ə)n] 
英 [ˈbɜː(r)d(ə)n]
- n.负担；重担；重负
- v.负重；（使）担负（沉重或艰难的任务、职责等）
- 网络负荷；担子；装载量
词形变化
复数：burdens 现在分词：burdening 过去式：burdened 同义词
英汉双解
1. | the ~ (of sth).a ~ (on/to sb) （义务、责任等的）重担，负担a duty, responsibility, etc. that causes worry, difficulty or hard work |
| to bear/carry/ease/reduce/share the burden 承受╱担负╱减轻╱减少╱分担重担 |
| The main burden of caring for old people falls on the state. 国家担负起了照料老人的大部分责任。 |
| the heavy tax burden on working people 加在劳动者头上的重税 |
| I don't want to become a burden to my children when I'm old. 我不想在年老的时候成为孩子们的累赘。 |
2. | 重担；重负a heavy load that is difficult to carry |
1. | ~ sb/yourself (with sth) （使）担负（沉重或艰难的任务、职责等）to give sb a duty, responsibility, etc. that causes worry, difficulty or hard work |
| They have burdened themselves with a high mortgage. 他们负担了一笔很高的按揭借款。 |
| I don't want to burden you with my worries. 我不想让你为我的烦恼操心。 |
| to be burdened by high taxation 不堪重税负荷 |
2. | 负重to be carrying sth heavy |
| She got off the bus, burdened with two heavy suitcases. 她提着两只沉重的手提箱下了公共汽车。 |
英汉解释
英英解释
例句
"As a consequence he was a burden to her, something she was forced to look after" .
结果他对她而言是个负担，是她被迫要去照顾的某个东西。
She would suffer in that sort of environment, and her illness would be an eternal burden on Cal.
她会忍受那种环境，而她的病却会拖累卡巴顿的。
Do not take that which does not belong to you unless it is a burden to the other person and he cries out to be relieved.
不要带走不属于你的东西，除非这是种其他人哭求着需要解脱的负担。
Fire burns in the Lidless Eye, flushing out, bringing mortal fear and a heavy burden to those whom ever dared to have a glance at it.
在无睑之眼中燃烧着烈焰，向外涌出，向那些胆敢瞥一眼其容的人们放射出致命的恐惧与沉重的负担。
Trying to solve the conundrum of Israel and Palestine was by far the biggest burden of his years on the throne.
侯赛因统治至今最大得负担就是努力解决以色列与巴勒斯坦的难题。
Sixth, such a high consumption of no doubt increased the financial burden on many families.
第六，这样的高消费无疑也加重了许多家庭的经济负担。
It was such a burden doing things other than singing as a singer but now I feel that it's not a big deal as I get older.
这是这种负担做事以外唱歌作为一名歌手，但现在我认为这不是一个大问题，我渐渐地长大。
Refusing to be a burden of her children, Aunty Fang chooses to spend her old age alone in a cluttered tent.
方大娘怕给孩子们负担，晚年选择独居生活，住在堆满杂物的帐棚区内。
When we moved into a rental apartment a couple of years ago, we realized that ownership had been a burden, a time sink, and a money pit.
几年前当我们搬进出租屋后，我们发现所有权其实是个负担，是个时间无底洞，是一个金钱陷阱。
Snowflake fluttering, light does not seem to have the burden of people found it really easy to see.
雪花飘飘，轻盈得似乎没有重担，令人看后觉得十分轻松。
It takes the mind-numbing complexity of dealing with relational databases, and makes it a joy, not a burden.
它消除了复杂的关系数据库处理操作，现在它为用户添加了快乐而不是负担。
Students in introductory economics courses learn that the burden of a tax does not necessarily stay where the Congress chooses to put it.
刚刚开始学习经济学的学生都会首先学到一个理论：国会所确定的税收负担并不是必须的。
It is unconscionable to leave the next generation with a crushing burden of debt and a nation in decline.
留给下一代巨额债务负担和一个衰败的国家是不合理的。
Not yield to the distance, carrying a very heavy shell, I saw you behind the door. You were reluctant to unload my burden.
心不甘的遥远我背了重重的壳又见你，在门的后面你不肯，
He said he hopes that other countries can share the burden of rare-earth development.
他说，他希望其他国家能分担对稀土的开采。
It probably also had a problem to breed, or to land on a flower, because its weight would burden anything it landed on.
也许它要产仔，或要落到一朵花上，恐怕这都会有问题，因为它的体积落到哪儿哪儿就会感到有重负。
A burden to the money: Burden? Well I may be happy if I earn a lot of money. But I also believe that big asset is big disaster.
金钱的负担：负担吗？我想如果我赚很多钱我会很开心的。但是我也相信，巨大的资产也是巨大的灾难。
'Financial obligations world-wide made this building a bit of a burden, ' she said.
她说，在其他国家出现的财务困难让这座大楼多少成了一个负担。
If we get all the money from the bank, paying the interests would be a great burden.
如果从银行获得所有贷款，那么还利息会是很大的负担。
Too early to consider the kind of foreign language study will increase the burden, and affect brain development point of view, the U.
那种认为过早学外语会增加学习负担，影响大脑发育的观点，被我们的实验教学所否定。
They were confirmed by little Publius himself who returned from his first term at school complaining that life was a burden to him.
小蒲柏里斯亲身的经验也证明了这一点：进学校才一个学期，回来就抱怨日子过不下去了。
The burden must be carried; the want provided for; the suffering endured; the responsibility fulfilled.
负担还得背下去；需要还得满足；痛苦还得忍受；责任还得完成。
The most important role of a leader is to take on his shoulder the burden of ambiguity inherent in difficult choices.
一位领导人的最重要的作用，是要在难以抉择的迷雾中承担责任，作出决断。
As soon as their season of usefulness is over, they become a burden upon the welfare resources of the community.
他们有用的季节一过，就成了这一地区福利资源的包袱。
No academic discipline can take from our shoulders the burden of difficult choices.
学术熏陶不能够从我们肩上减去作出困难抉择的重负。
What at first appears to be an advantage rapidly becomes a disadvantage, and in the end an intolerable burden.
这起初好象还颇有好处，但很快就变为不利了，到头来竟成为难以忍受的负担。
Their group was targeted to carry the burden of job losses.
他们那个小组被选中成为裁员的目标。
I have no wish to impose a new burden on you.
我不想给你增加新负担。
Oh Lord, why you put this burden on a man like me?
上帝啊，你为什么让我这样一个人来挑这副重担呀？
I don't want to become a burden to my children when I'm old.
我不想在年老的时候成为孩子们的累赘。
We once had 19 cats at one time. They were a vast burden.
我们家一度同时养了十九只猫。这是一个沉重的负担。
Life has become a burden to him.
生活对他来说已经成了负担。
First of all, I'd like to ask all the male population, do you reckon your life a disaster to your parents, or at least a heavy burden?
首先请教所有男同胞，是否认为自己是父母这一生的大包袱？
We unites us, increases our strength; it picks up our burden when you and I are ready to let it fall.
“我们”联系了我们的力量，捡起那些单独你或我都准备抛下的重担。
As you know, many PVC leather manufacturers have heavy burden to keep up with the high unit cost due to rising oil price.
如你所知，很多PVC皮革制造商沉重的负担，配合高单位成本由于油价上涨。
bite the bullet Camel: work pressure, interpersonal relationships, is often too heavy a burden rookie.
忍辱负重的骆驼：工作压力、人际关系，往往是新人无法承受之重。
Men are more ready to repay an injury than a benefit, because gratitude is a burden and revenge a pleasure.
人类更愿意报复伤害而不愿报答好意，因为感恩好比重担，而复仇则充满快感。
He tried to cope with the everincreasing burden of his work, but finally he broke down and had to take a complete rest.
他设法应付日益加重的工作负担，但最后身体垮了，不得不全休。
What is often a burden to us can be a blessing to others.
这就是对我们来说是负担而对别人来说可能是幸福。
The next time it feels like a time constraint is going to burden you to the ground, don't become obsessed with how little time you have.
感觉下一次，这样的强迫的想法就会把你压垮，不要被你有如此少的时间迷惑。
On other days he would be steeped in gloom, as if his burden was too heavy to bear.
另一些天他垂头丧气，无精打采，仿佛已不堪重负。
Such a financial burden would be difficult to bear for a healthy economy. Japan is not a healthy economy.
即便一个健康的经济体，也难以承受如此高的财务成本，更何况日本还不是一个健康的经济体。
With the details of an additional bail-out for Greece still to be hammered out, Germany wants private investors to share the burden.
伴随着对希腊施以额外帮助的细节仍在敲定当中，德国希望私人投资者能够分担负担。
What people did to me might hurt as well, but I would not carry their narrow-mindedness or bias as my burden.
别人针对我所做的事情同样可能伤害我，但是我不会把他们的心胸狭窄或偏见，变成自己的负担。
When we moved into a rental apartment a couple of years ago, werealized that ownership had been a burden, a time sink, and a money pit.
当我们两年前搬进一套租用的公寓时，我们认识到，业主身份早就是沉重的负担，随时沉没，而且还是一个填不满的钱坑。
Improve skin elasticity and tightness, smoothen fine lines, present bright and compact skins, easy to absorb without the burden.
增进肌肤弹性与紧实度，加强淡化细纹，呈现肌肤明亮与紧致，易吸收无负担。
While Whitney acknowledges that this class of securities is unlikely to see defaults, they still place a huge burden on the future.
虽然惠特尼承认这类证券不太可能出现违约，但未来仍是一个巨大的负担。
This woman, like many women of her sort, had a load of caresses and a burden of blows and injuries to dispense each day.
那妇人，和许多和她同一类型的妇人一样，每天都有一定数量的抚爱和一定数量的打骂要发泄。
Not until he decided to publish his own account of their relationship did the burden begin to lighten.
直到他出版了自己的这本有关他们关系的书时，他身上的负担才得以减轻。
That combined with his recent injury prone-ness will ensure that this deal is going to be more of a burden than bliss.
联系到他最近的伤病，这笔交易看上去更像会变成一个负担而不是幸福。
To lock yourself in a small steam room, as if testing the limits of the soul a burden of sorrow.
把自己锁在小小的蒸气房里，像是在考验着灵魂承受悲痛的极限。
I bet it's real tough on my aunt now dealing with having lost her husband, and then still having such a heavy burden on her.
我想她失去丈夫之痛楚一定是很难接受，然后要处理的事情还要多。
