burden

柯林斯词典

1. N-COUNT If you describe a problem or a responsibility as a burden, you mean that it causes someone a lot of difficulty, worry, or hard work. 负担
The developing countries bear the burden of an enormous external debt. 发展中国家背负着巨额外债的负担。
Her death will be an impossible burden on Paul. 她的去世会成为保罗难以承受的负担。
2. N-COUNT A burden is a heavy load that is difficult to carry. 重负[正式]
...African women carrying burdens on their heads. …头顶重物的非洲妇女。
3. V-T 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. 使烦恼
We decided not to burden him with the news. 我们决定不拿这个消息去烦他。
4. N a line of words recurring at the end of each verse of a ballad or similar song; chorus or refrain 叠句

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 .