
burden基本信息
读法:英 ["bɜːd(ə)n] 美 ["bɝdn]
释义:
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英英释义
Noun:
"that"s a load off my mind"
中英词源
burden 重担
来自bear, 承担,承载。
- burden
- burden: There are two distinct words burden in English. By far the older, ‘load’, comes from Old English byrthen. Like bear, birth, bairn, bier, barrow, and berth it goes back ultimately to an Indo-European base *bher-, which signified both ‘carry’ and ‘give birth’. Its immediate Germanic ancestor was *burthi-, which also gave German bürde ‘load’. The other burden, ‘refrain’, and hence ‘main theme’, is an alteration of an earlier bourdon [14], which was borrowed from Old French bourdon ‘bass pipe’.
=> bairn, barrow, bear, berth, bier, birth - burden (n.1)
- "a load," Old English byrðen "a load, weight, charge, duty;" also "a child;" from Proto-Germanic *burthinjo- "that which is borne" (cognates: Old Norse byrðr, Old Saxon burthinnia, German bürde, Gothic baurþei), from PIE root *bher- (1) "to bear, to carry; give birth" (see infer).
The shift from -th- to -d- took place beginning 12c. (compare murder (n.), rudder). Archaic burthen is occasionally retained for the specific sense of "capacity of a ship." Burden of proof is recorded from 1590s. - burden (n.2)
- "leading idea," 1640s, a figurative use from earlier sense "refrain or chorus of a song," 1590s, originally "bass accompaniment to music" (late 14c.), from Old French bordon "bumble-bee, drone," or directly from Medieval Latin burdonom "drone, drone bass" (source of French bourdon, Spanish bordon, Portuguese bordão, Italian bordone), of echoic origin.
词态变化
复数 burdens;
第三人称单数 burdens;
过去式 burdened;
过去分词 burdened;
现在分词 burdening;
权威造句
- 1. I wouldn"t call it a burden; I call it a responsibility.
- 我不觉得这是负担;我觉得它是一种责任。
来自柯林斯例句
- 2. The developing countries bear the burden of an enormous external debt.
- 发展中国家背负着巨额外债。
来自柯林斯例句
- 3. A vastly disproportionate burden falls on women for child care.
- 照料孩子的重担落在了女性身上。
来自柯林斯例句
- 4. Her death will be an impossible burden on Paul.
- 她的去世将给保罗带来难以承受的打击。
来自柯林斯例句
- 5. His business empire collapsed under a massive burden of debt.
- 他的商业帝国无力承担沉重的债务负担而垮掉了。
来自柯林斯例句
近反义词
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相似短语
单词分析
这些名词均有“负担,负荷”之意。burden指沉重、令人不快的负担;指精神负担时常有不堪忍受的意味。
cargo指用轮船、车辆或飞机长距离运载的货物。
load普通用词,含义广泛,指人、畜、车、船等负载的东西,指精神负担时,可与burden换用,但无感情色彩。
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