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。
在阿瑟·柯南·道尔的《巴斯克维尔的猎犬》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I prayed, as I walked back along the gray, lonely road, that my friend might soon be freed from his preoccupations and able to come down to take this heavy burden of responsibil-ity from my shoulders.
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《白痴》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He said that this thought weighed so upon him and became such a terrible burden upon his brain that he could not bear it, and wished they would shoot him quickly and have done with it.'
-- She helps me to keep up my courage, and to bear the trials of my domestic life, and as I have an extra burden on my mind today ...' 'It seems to me,' interrupted the prince, 'that I was foolish to trouble you just now.
在荷马的《伊利亚特》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The oaken axle groaned aloud under the burden of the awful goddess and the hero; Pallas Minerva took the whip and reins, and drove straight at Mars.
-- Call every man on your way, and bid him be stirring; name him by his lineage and by his father's name, give each all titular observance, and stand not too much upon your own dignity; we must take our full share of toil, for at our birth Jove laid this heavy burden upon us.'
-- 'Listen,' she cried, 'sisters, daughters of Nereus, that you may hear the burden of my sorrows.
-- Return to my own land I shall not, and I have brought no saving neither to Patroclus nor to my other comrades of whom so many have been slain by mighty Hector; I stay here by my ships a bootless burden upon the earth, I, who in fight have no peer among the Achaeans, though in council there are better than I.
-- Here a very deep slumber took hold upon him and eased the burden of his sorrows, for his limbs were weary with chasing Hector round windy Ilius.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《隐形人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He was wrapped up from head to foot, and the brim of his soft felt hat hid every inch of his face but the shiny tip of his nose; the snow had piled itself against his shoulders and chest, and added a white crest to the burden he carried.
-- He took up his burden again, and returned upstairs, looking about him and trying to account for the blood-spot.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《人魔岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I went on shouting, I scarcely remember what, that Moreau and Montgomery could be killed, that they were not to be feared: that was the burden of what I put into the heads of the Beast People.
在詹姆斯·费尼莫尔·库柏的《最后的摩根战士》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It was the first opportunity possessed by Duncan and his companions to view the marked lineaments of either of their Indian atten-dants, and each individual of the party felt relieved from a burden of doubt, as the proud and determined, though wild expression of the features of the young warrior forced itself on their notice.
-- As every vehicle and each beast of burden was occupied by the sick and wounded, Cora had decided to endure the fatigues of a foot march, rather than interfere with their comforts.
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- What, perhaps, with other things, made Stubb such an easy-going, unfearing man, so cheerily trudging off with the burden of life in a world full of grave pedlars, all bowed to the ground with their packs; what helped to bring about that almost impious good-humor of his; that thing must have been his pipe.
-- But, with a full grown leviathan this is impossible; for the sperm whale's head embraces nearly one third of his entire bulk, and completely to suspend such a burden as that, even by the immense tackles of a whaler, this were as vain a thing as to attempt weighing a Dutch barn in jewellers' scales.
-- "I think I remember some such story as you were telling," said Flask, when at last the two boats were slowly advancing with their burden towards the ship, "but I can't remember where."
-- We all know what an astonishing atmospheric weight we ourselves stand up under; even here, above-ground, in the air; how vast, then, the burden of a whale, bearing on his back a column of two hundred fathoms of ocean!It must at least equal the weight of fifty atmospheres.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《雾都孤儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The result was, that, after a few struggles, Oliver breathed, sneezed, and proceeded to advertise to the inmates of the workhouse the fact of a new burden having been imposed upon the parish, by setting up as loud a cry as could reasonably have been expected from a male infant who had not been possessed of that very useful appendage, a voice, for a much longer space of time than three minutes and a quarter.
在丹尼尔·笛福的《鲁滨逊漂流记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- But now, when I began to be sick, and a leisurely view of the miseries of death came to place itself before me; when my spirits began to sink under the burden of a strong distem-per, and nature was exhausted with the violence of the fever; conscience, that had slept so long, began to awake, and I be-gan to reproach myself with my past life, in which I had so evidently, by uncommon wickedness, provoked the justice of God to lay me under uncommon strokes, and to deal with me in so vindictive a manner.
-- Thus, fear of danger is ten thousand times more terrifying than danger itself, when apparent to the eyes; and we find the burden of anxiety greater, by much, than the evil which we are anxious about: and what was worse than all this, I had not that relief in this trouble that from the resignation I used to practise I hoped to have.
在西奥多·德莱塞的《嘉莉妹妹》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It is the lifting of the burden of toil.
-- He turned to his eating again, the thought that it was a burden to have her here dwelling in his mind.
-- This shifting of the burden to her appealed to Carrie.
-- She took it to heart as a creditable thing, until he added: "That puts a burden of duty on you.
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