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：
-- They promised that her path should be pleasant, and her burden light.
-- Munro started, as if the last trumpet had sounded in his ear, and bestowing one anxious and hurried glance around him, he arose and followed in the simple train, with the mien of a soldier, but bearing the full burden of a parent's suffering.
在华盛顿·欧文的《睡谷的传说》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I would not have it imagined, however, that he was one of those cruel potentates of the school who joy in the smart of their subjects; on the contrary, he administered justice with discrimination rather than severity; taking the burden off the backs of the weak, and laying it on those of the strong.
在威廉·萨默塞特·毛姆的《月亮和六便士》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The moral I draw is that the writer should seek his reward in the pleasure of his work and in release from the burden of his thought; and, indifferent to aught else, care nothing for praise or censure, failure or success.
-- It's a great burden to its possessors.
-- He could not do enough to show his gratitude for the whole-hearted devotion with which she had accepted the burden he laid on her.
-- I hoped that the grief which now seemed intolerable would be softened by the lapse of time, and a merciful forgetfulness would help him to take up once more the burden of life.
-- I reflected that French paper was bad, and that, foiled of my purpose, I need not burden myself with a purchase that I did not need.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《神秘岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- As it was useless to burden themselves with the weight of both the animals, Neb and Pencroft resolved to skin them on the spot, while Cyrus Harding and the reporter continued to explore the islet.
-- "Certainly," said Pencroft, "a beast of burden would be very useful to us until the captain has made a steam cart, or even an engine, for some day we shall have a railroad from Granite House to Port Balloon, with a branch line to Mount Franklin!"
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《老古玩店》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The old man had forgotten a kind of wallet which contained the light burden he had to carry; and the going back a few steps to fetch it seemed an interminable delay.
-- And here Mr Codlin's false position in society and the effect it wrought upon his wounded spirit, were strongly illustrated; for whereas he had been last night accosted by Mr Punch as 'master,' and had by inference left the audience to understand that he maintained that individual for his own luxurious entertainment and delight, here he was, now, painfully walking beneath the burden of that same Punch's temple, and bearing it bodily upon his shoulders on a sultry day and along a dusty road.
-- As the travellers had observed that day many indications of their drawing nearer and nearer to the race town, such as gipsy camps, carts laden with gambling booths and their appurtenances, itinerant showmen of various kinds, and beggars and trampers of every degree, all wending their way in the same direction, Mr Codlin was fearful of finding the accommodations forestalled; this fear increasing as he diminished the distance between himself and the hostelry, he quickened his pace, and notwithstanding the burden he had to carry, maintained a round trot until he reached the threshold.
-- said Mr Codlin, putting down his burden and wiping his forehead.
-- In the smaller public-houses, fiddles with all their might and main were squeaking out the tune to staggering feet; drunken men, oblivious of the burden of their song, joined in a senseless howl, which drowned the tinkling of the feeble bell and made them savage for their drink; vagabond groups assembled round the doors to see the stroller woman dance, and add their uproar to the shrill flageolet and deafening drum.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《复活》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- She was a great burden to her grandmother, so the old maidens adopted her.
-- The burden of his speech, if we eliminate the flights of eloquence, was to the effect that Maslova, after gaining the merchant's confidence, hypnotized him, and that, arriving at the inn with the key to the merchant's trunk, she intended to steal the money herself, but, being discovered by Simon and Euphemia, was obliged to divide with them.
-- When he described Maslova's unfortunate life, telling how she had been drawn into a life of vice by a man who went unpunished, while she was left to bear the whole burden of her fall, he attempted to become eloquent, but his excursion into the domain of psychology failed, so that everybody felt awkward.
-- Perfected prisons would cost more than is spent on popular education and would be a new burden on the populace."
在戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯的《恋爱中的女人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The real tree of life would then be rid of the most ghastly, heavy crop of Dead Sea Fruit, the intolerable burden of myriad simulacra of people, an infinite weight of mortal lies."
-- The terrible swooning burden on his mind, the awful swooning, the loss of all his control, was too much for him.
-- It was a burden upon her, that she resented, but could not escape.
-- She had felt it turning white so often, under the intolerable burden of her thoughts, und her sensations.
-- What did he do, he made the burden for her greater, the burden of her sleep was the more intolerable, when he was there.
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