burden
🇺🇸
/ˈbɜːrdn/
🇬🇧
/ˈbɜːdn/
A heavy responsibility that causes stress or hard work.
The burden of caring for elderly parents often falls on their children.
照顧年邁父母的重擔常常落在子女身上。
A heavy object that is hard to carry.
He carried the heavy burden of firewood up the hill.
他扛著沉重的柴火重擔上山。
To give someone a heavy responsibility that causes stress.
Don't burden your friends with too many problems.
不要用太多問題來加重朋友的負擔。
To carry something heavy.
She was burdened with heavy shopping bags.
她背負著沉重的購物袋。