词汇 | burden |
释义 | IDIOMSLANG BURDEN be a drag (on someone) to be a burden to someone; to bore someone. (Slang.)Mr. Franklin is a drag on Mrs. Franklin.Yes, I'd expect him to be a drag. bear one's cross and carry one's cross to carry or bear one's burden; to endure one's difficulties. (This is a biblical theme.)It’s a very bad disease, but I'll bear my cross.You'll just have to carry your cross. carry the weight of the world on one's shoulders to appear to be burdened by all the problems in the whole world.Look at Tom. He appears to be carrying the weight of the world on his shoulders.Cheer up, Tom! You don't need to carry the weight of the world on your shoulders. have someone or something on one's hands to be burdened with someone or something. (Have can be replaced with leave.)I run a record store. I sometimes have a large number of unwanted records on my hands.Please don't leave the children on my hands. millstone about one's neck a continual burden or handicap.This huge and expensive house is a millstone about my neck.Bill's inability to read is a millstone about his neck. put upon by someone [for someone] to be made use of to an unreasonable degree. (Typically passive.)My mother was always put upon by her neighbors.lane feels put upon by her husband's parents. They're always coming to stay with her. saddle someone with something to give someone something undesirable, annoying, or difficult to deal with. (Informal.)Mary says she doesn't want to be saddled with a baby, but her husband would just love one.Jim saddled Eddie with the most boring jobs so that he would leave. stick someone with someone or something to burden someone with someone or something. (Informal.)The dishonest merchant stuck me with a faulty television set.John stuck me with his talkative uncle and went off with his friends. stuck with someone or something burdened with someone or something; left having to care for someone or something. (Informal.)Please don't leave me stuck with your aunt. She talks too much.My roommate quit school and left me stuck with the telephone bill. take too much on to undertake to do too much work or too many tasks.Don't take too much on, or you won't be able to do any of it well.Ann tends to take on too much and get exhausted. tied down restricted by responsibilities.I love my home, but sometimes I don't like being tied down.I don't feel tied down, even though I have a lot of responsibility. tie someone down to restrict or encumber someone.I'd like to go fishing every weekend, but my family ties me down.I don't want to tie you down, but you do have responsibilities here at home. tie someone up to keep someone busy or occupied.Sorry, this matter will tie me up for about an hour.The same matter will tie up almost everyone in the office. weigh someone down [for a thought] to worry or depress someone.All these problems really weigh me down.Financial problems have been weighing down our entire family. wish something off on someone to pass something off onto someone else. (Informal.)I don't want to have to deal with your problems. Don't wish them off on me.The storekeeper wished off the defective watch on the very next customer who came in. bear the burden (of something)To endure something distressing, painful, stressful, or emotionally or physically taxing, especially for the sake of others. Our mother bore the burden of this farm for 53 years until the day she died. My partner quit his job to stay home with the baby, so I have to bear the burden of earning enough to pay the mortgage. burden of proofThe requirement and obligation of providing sound, reasonable evidence supporting a charge or allegation. Originating and used primarily in law, it can be applied more broadly to any situation in which a contentious dispute arises. In court, the burden of proof always rests on the plaintiffs and the prosecutors. The burden of proof is on you to show that the computer was broken before you bought it. beast of burdenA domesticated animal used by humans to carry or pull heavy loads. Camels have been used by people as beasts of burden for thousands of years because of their size, strength, and ability to travel long distances with minimal need for food and water. burden (someone) with (something)To share something distressing or troublesome with another person. I'm sorry to burden you with my problems, but I could really use some advice here. Don't burden her with that information now—wait until she's done with her exams. the white man's burdenoffensive The belief of white European colonizers that they had a moral obligation to enforce their culture, religion, and ethics on the indigenous populations they enslaved or conquered. It's clear that the minister, a dinosaur in his belief, still holds onto the notion of the white man's burden when the topic of African and Middle Eastern refugees comes up. burden someone or something with someone or somethingto bother or weigh down someone or something with someone or something. Please don't burden us with the bad news at this time. I don't want to burden the school with a troublesome child. burden someone with somethingto give unpleasant information to someone; to give someone some bad news. I hate to burden you with this, but your cat ran away. I wish I had not been burdened with all the facts. burden of proofObligation of proving a disputed charge or allegation. For example, Are you sure you mailed the tax return on time? The burden of proof's on you. A legal term dating from the late 1500s, it has also been used more loosely in recent times. the white man's burdenthe task, believed by white colonizers to be incumbent upon them, of imposing Western civilization on the black inhabitants of European colonies. datedThe white man's burden comes from Rudyard Kipling's poem of that title ( 1899 ), originally referring specifically to the United States' role in the Philippines. burden of proof, theThe obligation to support a contention by presenting adequate evidence. The term is a translation of the Latin onus probandi and was used in English courts of law from the late sixteenth century on. Transferred to any situation in which there was an obligation to prove something, it became a cliché in the nineteenth century. Attorney-novelist Scott Turow used it as the title for a popular novel involving a suicide and lawsuit (1990). |
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