| 词汇 | overburden |
| 释义 | overburden verb[ Toften passive ] uk /ˌəʊ.vəˈbɜː.dən/ us /ˌoʊ.vɚˈbɝː.dən/ to make someone or something work too hard or carry, contain, or deal with too much: 使不堪重负；使负担过重；使装载过多 Insurance companies are already overburdened with similar claims.保险公司已经被类似的索赔搞得不堪重负。 Now 5,000 new children will be attending the district's already overburdened school system.现在5000名新学童将要进入本地区已经超负荷运转的学校系统。 Causing difficulties for oneself or others ask questions of someone/somethingidiom be a tall orderidiom be asking for troubleidiom be your own worst enemyidiom bother someone with something catch dig make heavy weather of somethingidiom make it difficult for someone to do something obduracy open a can of worms pitchfork someone into something sand shoot subject someone/something to something sucker punch swamp tall throw sand in the gearsidiom wrong-foot Examples of overburdenoverburden It is possible that the availability of an appropriate palliative care service assists in preventing a feeling of being overburdened. However, no attempt was made to constrain vertical frost heave or simulate overburden pressures because the intention was to simulate near-surface environments. Neither overburdened nor spare, her work strikes the right tenor given this subject's appeal beyond academic circles. Indeed, in an area of popular music studies overburdened with authorial interpretations, it is entirely refreshing to hear the accounts of young people themselves. Despite the hierarchically institutionalized local finance and the illegal practice of overburdening, the manipulation of such incentives served as a way of motivating local authorities. Families could be overburdened with children, or suffer from harvest failure or disruptions to trade. The isopleths are not disrupted or truncated by thrusting, as previously suspected, indicating that the heating is not attributable to pre-thrusting stratigraphic overburden. Because of the ministries' underestimation of the amount of overburdening, these efforts were far from eliminating the problem. However, it is important not to overburden the trial by the collection of unnecessary data and to make explicit the rationale for the method used. The book is consequently not overburdened with detail and written with a view to familiarizing those in authority with the practical importance of mosquito reduction. Local governments compete with each other for national grants and privileges, but in the case of overburdening, they have no reason to do so. Since there is no central verifying authority involved, there is no concern for overburdening the system as it grows. Generally speaking, health visitors are already overburdened and are currently employed mainly in caring for preschool children and their families. But it need not overburden a society through high technology interventions. In the mid-1970s, local authorities clearly harbored hostility against the central government's lack of action in the matter of overburdening. These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. |
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