burden是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为n. 担子， 重担， 负担vt. 给予负担或麻烦，这个词在很多英文原版小说中怎么应用呢，今天小编就带您了解一下。
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《双城记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- But, the glorious sun, rising, seemed to strike those words, that burden of the night, straight and warm to his heart in its long bright rays.
在汉斯·克里斯蒂安·安徒生的《安徒生童话》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'A little trip to Fredericksburg would do me no great harm,' thought he; 'for I, poor beast of burden that I am, have so much to annoy me, that I don't know what a good appetite is.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《安娜·卡列尼娜》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The laborers with us, the peasants, bear all the burden of labor, and are so placed that however much they work they can't escape from their position of beasts of burden.
-- And society's so constituted that the harder they work, the greater the profit of the merchants and landowners, while they stay beasts of burden to the end.
-- And with his close assiduity, his conscientious devotion to his work, he's strained to the utmost; and there's some outside burden weighing on him, and not a light one," concluded the doctor, raising his eyebrows significantly.
-- His burden is light," she said, with the look of ecstasy Alexey Alexandrovitch knew so well.
-- At this moment Anna was positively admitting to herself that she was a burden to him, that he would relinquish his freedom regretfully to return to her, and in spite of that she was glad he was coming.
在辛克莱·刘易斯的《阿罗史密斯》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "Oh, what--WHAT could be more beau-tiful than relieving this sad old world of its burden of illness!But just precisely what IS it that you're doing?"
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《罪与罚》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He felt he had cast off that fearful burden that had so long been weighing upon him, and all at once there was a sense of relief and peace in his soul.
-- 'No, better cast off the burden without thinking.'
-- A strange desire you have to shower benefits on a man who 芒聙娄 curses them, who feels them a burden in fact!Why did you seek me out at the beginning of my illness?
-- Because I couldn't bear my burden and have come to throw it on another: you suffer too, and I shall feel better!And can you love such a mean wretch?'
-- When one has buried them to burden oneself with others wife and children and to leave them again without a farthing?
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《大卫科波菲尔》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- On the steps of the church, there was the stooping figure of a man,who had put down some burden on the smooth snow, to adjust it;my seeing the face, and my seeing him, were simultaneous.
-- To a man whois struggling with a complicated burden of perplexity and disquiet,such a reception is trying, I assure you.'
-- We wentinto the town, and took our burden to the inn.
-- I roamed from place to place, carryingmy burden with me everywhere.
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "My life is a burden without you," he exclaimed, in a low voice.
-- Joseph Poorgrass looked round upon his sad burden as it loomed faintly through the flowering laurustinus, then at the unfathomable gloom amid the high trees on each hand, indistinct, shadowless, and spectre-like in their monochrome of grey.
-- A runaway wife is an encumbrance to everybody, a burden to herself and a byword all of which make up a heap of misery greater than any that comes by staying at home though this may include the trifling items of insult, beating, and starvation.
-- He carried rather a heavy basket upon his arm, with which he strode moodily along the road, resting occasionally at bridges and gates, whereon he deposited his burden for a time.
-- Here he passed with her under the archway into a private room; and by the time he had deposited so lothly the precious burden upon a sofa, Bathsheba had opened her eyes.
在巴尔扎克的《高老头》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Indeed, the man appeared to have been one of the beasts of burden in our great social mill; one of those Parisian Ratons whom their Bertrands do not even know by sight; a pivot in the obscure machinery that disposes of misery and things unclean; one of those men, in short, at sight of whom we are prompted to remark that, "After all, we cannot do without them."
在玛丽·雪莱的《弗兰肯斯坦》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I could offer no explanation of them, but their truth in part relieved the burden of my mysterious woe.
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