burden是什么意思

双语用例

• The war had put an insupportable financial burden on the country.

• The irony of it is that the new tax system will burden those it was intended to help.

• A huge burden was lifted from my shoulders when I told my parents about my problem.

• Such a high increase will impose an undue burden on the local tax payer.

• Not until this turbulent region can shuffle off the burdens of the past will it be able to settle peacefully into the community of nations.

• The letters were a moving plea for relief from the burdens of repeated child-bearing.

• Why change tax rates to make tax burdens sound more onerous when the status quo gained the same revenues?

• The transfer of reference to the sick and incapacitated is a minor semantic development: compare the histories of burden's lexical neighbours, bureau, burger and business.