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。
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- She had been reared in the tradition of great ladies, which had taught her how to carry her burden and still retainher charm, and she intended that her three daughters should be great ladies also.
-- Until you've lost your reputation, you never realize what a burden it was or what freedom reallyis."
-- "Dear Wife, if I have concealed aught from you it is because I did not wish to lay a burden on your shoulders, toadd to your worries for my physical safety with those of my mental turmoil.
-- The large cut-glass bowl held at the door by the Elsings' butlerhad been emptied twice of its burden of silver coins: That in itself was enough to make the affair a success, for now adollar in silver was worth sixty dollars in Confederate paper money.
-- When Lincoln refused to exchange prisoners, believing it would hasten the end of the war to burden theConfederacy with the feeding and guarding of Union prisoners, there were thousands of bluecoats at Andersonville,Georgia.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《远大前程》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Conscience is a dreadful thing when it accuses man or boy; but when, in the case of a boy, that secret burden co-operates with another secret burden down the leg of his trousers, it is (as I can testify) a great punishment.
-- There was a song Joe used to hum fragments of at the forge, of which the burden was Old Clem.
-- A teaboard, cups and saucers, plates, knives and forks (including carvers), spoons (various), saltcellars, a meek little muffin confined with the utmost precaution under a strong iron cover, Moses in the bulrushes typified by a soft bit of butter in a quantity of parsley, a pale loaf with a powdered head, two proof impressions of the bars of the kitchen fireplace on triangular bits of bread, and ultimately a fat family urn; which the waiter staggered in with, expressing in his countenance burden and suffering.
在格林兄弟的《格林童话》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The giant, after he had dragged the heavy burden part of the way, could go no further, and cried: 'Hark you, I shall have to let the tree fall!'
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《艰难时世》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It was not her part to make his burden heavier.
在戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯的《查太莱夫人的情人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Then Connie lifted the burden of his dead legs after him.
-- What man with a spark of honour would put this ghastly burden of life-responsibility upon a woman, and leave her there, in the void?
-- And at last, she could bear the burden of herself no more.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The legend related how that the young lady used to be seen up at her window behind the bars, murmuring a love-lorn song of which the burden was, 'Bleeding Heart, Bleeding Heart, bleeding away,' until she died.
-- With a remembrance of her father's old life in prison hanging about her like the burden of a sorrowful tune, Little Dorrit would wake from a dream of her birth-place into a whole day's dream.
-- With a sense of going down-stairs in a highly-ridiculous manner, Clennam descended in the required attitude, and only released his fair burden at the dining-room door; indeed, even there she was rather difficult to be got rid of, remaining in his embrace to murmur, 'Arthur, for mercy's sake, don't breathe it to papa!'
-- He laughed again, and whistled the burden of the tune he had sung at the door.
-- The assurance he now had, that Blandois, whatever his right name, was one of the worst of characters, greatly augmented the burden of his anxieties.
在路易莎·梅·奥尔科特的《小妇人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'Each of you told what your burden was just now, except Beth.
-- But Amy was a young pilgrim, and just now her burden seemed very heavy.
-- Fulness to them a burden is, That go on pilgrimage.
-- When Aunt spoke to me the other day, she regretted your blunt man-ners and too independent spirit, and here she writes, as if quoting something you had said 'I planned at first to ask Jo, but as 'favors burden her', and she 'hates French', I think I won't venture to invite her.
-- 'Jo, dear, I'm very selfish, but I couldn't spare you, and I'm glad you are not going quite yet,' whispered Beth, embracing her, basket and all, with such a clinging touch and loving face that Jo felt comforted in spite of the sharp regret that made her want to box her own ears, and humbly beg Aunt Carrol to burden her with this favor, and see how gratefully she would bear it.
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- And half concealed in this queer tenement, I at length found one who by his aspect seemed to have authority; and who, it being noon, and the ship's work suspended, was now enjoying respite from the burden of command.
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